Hi Mark, Thanks for this. I guess this is the right answer. It's certainly more elegant.
Regards Steve On 23 January 2013 at 17:27 Mark Dootson <mark.doot...@znix.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a follow up > > On 20/01/2013 16:58, stephen.cook...@sca-uk.com wrote: > > > 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 :) > > > > After posting I looked at man mount a little more closely and the > correct syntax for mount options is a comma delimited list - so the > following would also work - according to the manual. > > mount -t cifs -o user="User Name",password=mypassword > //10.10.10.10/sharedfs /mnt/cifstest > > Cheers > > Mark > > > > > > 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 > >> >
