According to the docs at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS, the following command should work:
mount -t cifs //<windows machine name>/<shared folder> /<mountpoint> \ -o "username=<user>,uid=<uid>,iocharset=cp850,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=660" That doesn't work for me. I get this error: mount -t cifs //sidewinder/temp_xfer /mnt/tmp -o [...] mount error: improperly formatted UNC name. /sidewinder/temp_xfer does not begin with \\ or // mount error 22 = Invalid argument mount.cifs works fine. The only way I can get mount to work is to use backslashes for the UNC path. When support for forward-slahses in UNC paths get broken? -- Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
