Re: Cifs mounting not working on F8

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On Dec 3, 2007 1:15 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I did not have the samba-client package installed. That was the
problem! Thanks a lot, Ed.

Paul


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