[ILUG] CIFS mounting - can a remote directory be specified?

[Proinnsias Breathnach]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:59:08AM +0000, fuzzix wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to mount a Windows share, which I am able to browse
> successfully with smbclient, with mount.cifs. I run smbclient as follows:
> 
> $ smbclient //host/share$ -U user -D dir -W DOMAIN
> 
> -D being the remote directory changed to before the smbclient shell
> appears - this works fine.
> 
> When I specify the remote directory in the share's path...:
> 
> # mount.cifs //host/share$/dir local/ -o user=user,domain=DOMAIN
> 
> ...I get "mount error 6 = No such device or address" - it's no longer a
> recognised share.
> 
> Is there a way to specify the remote directory in the mount.cifs
> parameters in the same manner as with smbclient?
> 
Nope ... pure and simple - you mount a share. It'd be easier to define a
new share from the subdirectory you really want .. 

As you say - smbclient has a -D option, which literally does a "cd
newdir" before handing it back to you. Think of it as "mount share dir
&& cd dir/otherdir/"


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