Re: cifs mount no read/write

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harry Putnam wrote:

> Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  
>
> > This has an error.   Mount requires the options BEFORE the device
> > being mounted.
> > Maybe that is the problem since it does not apply your options to the
> > mount command.
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >       mount [-lhV]
> >      mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-O optlist]
> >       mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir
> >       mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir
> >
> >    
>
> Maybe you didn't notice the command line is `mount.cifs' not `mount'
> The syntax is different and it doesn't throw an error plus the share
> gets mounted.
>
>  mount.cifs 
>
>  Usage:  mount.cifs <remotetarget> <dir> -o <options>
>  
I noticed, but I do not have cifs installed.
I used the information available, and should have noted that I could not 
explicitly test the mount.cifs command.
My apologies.

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