On Dec 3, 2007 1:07 AM, 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). > > 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. Should not the following command return other thing # ls -l /sbin/mount.cifs ls: cannot access /sbin/mount.cifs: No such file or directory # ? Paul
