cifsmount

[Mohan Nathan]

Does anyone know the format of the cifsmount command to mount a PC drive onto an HP server ? there doesnt seem to be a manpage for it.

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,
like this
#mkdir /mnt
#cifsmount '//pcname/c$' /mnt -Uusername

username is of PC
regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Stefan Farrelly]

Format of cifsmount is;

cifsmount /// -U -I

eg.

cifsmount //pc1/C /tmp_mnt -U Administrator -I 10.132.1.2

It should prompt you for the password. You can add -P if you dont want to be prompted for it.

[Darren Prior]

Hi,

There is a man page for cifsmount in "Installing and Configuring the CIFS/9000 Client" which is on http://docs.hp.com (and also /opt/cifsclient/HP_Docs.) However the use of cifsmount is discouraged and may not be available in future releases of CIFS/9000 client.

An alternative to using cifsmount is:
mount -F cifs -o username=x, password=y :/ /

regards,

Darren.