On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:58:06 +0000 "Paul Smith" <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="myusername" > //myserver.uni.edut/myremotedir\$ /mnt/iso I know the script I was using stopped working and it was complaining that the name //intranet/public didn't start with either // or \\ (as you can see it *does* start with //). To see if it would make it happy, I changed //intranet/public to \\\\intranet\\public and it had no problem mounting it (the extra \ characters being needed to get through shell escape processing).
