On Dec 3, 2007 12:58 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> 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). Thanks, Tom. I have just tried mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="myusername" \\\\myserver.uni.edut\\myremotedir\$ /mnt/iso but with no success. Paul
