[gentoo-user] mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards 
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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] mount -t cifs doesn't accept //hostname/share?

2008-03-17 Thread Rik Koenig 
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 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


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This error is actually described in the gentoo-wiki page just under that
command example: '*Warning:* Recent versions of mount don't support
forward slashes in UNC path names as shown above -- you must use
backslashes.'

However, forward slashes are working for me with samba 3.0.28 and util-linux
2.13-r2.

~RK