cifs mount no read/write

[Jeff Vian]

Harry Putnam wrote:

>Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> writes:
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>>This has an error.   Mount requires the options BEFORE the device
>>being mounted.
>>Maybe that is the problem since it does not apply your options to the
>>mount command.
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>>SYNOPSIS
>>       mount [-lhV]
>>      mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-O optlist]
>>       mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir
>>       mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir
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>Maybe you didn't notice the command line is `mount.cifs' not `mount'
>The syntax is different and it doesn't throw an error plus the share
>gets mounted.
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>  mount.cifs 
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>  Usage:  mount.cifs <remotetarget> <dir> -o <options>
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I noticed, but I do not have cifs installed.
I used the information available, and should have noted that I could not 
explicitly test the mount.cifs command.
My apologies.

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