mount.cifs Example please?

[Mike Cronenworth]

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Subject: Re:mount.cifs Example please?
From: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Date: 03/27/2008 06:09 PM
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:01:28 -0700
> Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> The google search you suggest is exactly what I did to find my answer.
>> I don't really think that is my point, but I do understand that I did
>> find my answer so, "What am I complaining about?"
>>     
>
> Always remember: Without google, linux itself would be impossible :-)
>
> Back on cifs mounts, I discovered that the man page claims // or \\
> works equally well for share names, but in fact I couldn't get it
> to work at all with //. The script I use at work to mount windows
> shares on my linux box has this line:
>
> mount -t cifs -o credentials=/dev/fd/4 -o domain=iccur -o ro -o uid=$unix_me -o gid=$unix_me \\\\intranet\\public /intranet/public
>
> Lots of escaped backslashes to wind up with the right number for whoever
> cares down inside the cifs mount code.
>
>   
Remember, the kernel cannot do SMB name lookups. It uses DNS. Unless you 
have the computer "alpha" setup in your DNS server, the mount command 
won't find it with \\alpha.

I setup DHCP with DNS updates so my computer names sync with DNS, and 
those type of commands will work all the time.