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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:

> According to the docs at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Samba#Using_CIFS,
> the following command should work:
>
> mount -t cifs /// / \
> -o
> "username=,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
>

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

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