Problem with smb shares.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:08:07PM +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2005, at 19:13, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> >I know someone is going to tell me that google will give me the answer
> >but I am burdened with too much information already so I will ask this
> >anyway.
> >
> >Since W2k shares can have more than two levels but evidently not in
> >the smbmount that I am using so I can say:
> >smbmount //trinity-tiger/users .....
> >but not:
> >smbmount //trinity-tigers/users/csldap1 ...
> 
> What's the problem with the first command? Why do you want to mount a 
> subdirectory of a share instead of mounting the share directly?
Well here is the deal. The managers of the system put users, faculty,
etc. in different subdirectories. When I use the first smbmount I
mount not the directory of csldap1 but the directory of all the
home directories of users of the system. I might be able to live with
that but it is annoying. Not to make a value judgement but MAC OS X
allows you to mount  using the share: //trinity-tigers/users/csldap1
to mount only the home directory of csldap1.
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