Paul Smith wrote: > 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 Do you have the samba-client package installed? I believe mount.cifs is part of it.
