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
