Hi Mark, Thanks for this. It worked perfectly. I was already using the ip address rather than the host name, but the -o before each option, as you say, was not totally intuitive :)
Regards Steve On 20 January 2013 at 03:12 Mark Dootson <mark.doot...@znix.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 19/01/2013 15:41, stephen.cook...@sca-uk.com wrote: > > > > > Do you have this working on your system? > > > > If so, I'd appreciate an example. > > The following works OK for me: > > mount -t cifs -o user="User Name" -o password=mypassword > //10.10.10.10/sharedfs /mnt/cifstest > > None obvious things were: > -o required before every option > IP address needed - name resolution did not seem to work with cifs. I > would guess this is because it tries to resolve //SomeName/sharedfs as a > NetBios address but that's just me grabbing a reason out of the air. > > > Hope it helps. > > Mark >
