Questions[cifs](server)

I'm maintaining a heterogeneous network of mac and linux so I decided to create a little perl script to unify mounting strategies across machines.

The current implementation in linux is in /etc/fstab works fine:

//myserverhere.com/cifs_share /mnt/cifs_share cifs user,uid=65001,rw,workgroup=DEV,credentials=/root/.cifs 0 0

and /root/.cifs contains

username=ouruser
password=ourpassword

I tried translating that to a non-fstab format as follows:

mount.cifs //myserverhere.com/cifs_share /mnt/cifs_share user,uid=65001,rw,workgroup=DEV,credentials=/root/.cifs

But it doesn't seem to work.

Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong please?

Thanks in advance.

Ismael Casimpan :)

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mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o credentials=credfile

The contents of credfile is:

username=Administrator
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When I run the above mount command I get "Access Denied". However if I run the following command it works:

mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o username=Administrator,password=What@zR\!p3s

Please note the "\" is to escape the bang and I've tried this with and without it in the credentials file. Any suggestions?

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\\Server\ShareName -> C:\Folder\ShareName

Instead of the usual map like this:

\\Server\ShareName -> Z:\

The server is Linux/Samba and the client is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. The closest I've found is being able to mount a local volume as a subfolder using the Windows disk manager, but it doesn't appear to handle remote CIFS shares (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889).