Cifs mounting not working on F8

[Paul Smith]

On Dec 3, 2007 12:58 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> > mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="myusername"
> > //myserver.uni.edut/myremotedir\$ /mnt/iso
>
> I know the script I was using stopped working and it
> was complaining that the name //intranet/public didn't
> start with either // or \\ (as you can see it *does*
> start with //).
>
> To see if it would make it happy, I changed
> //intranet/public to \\\\intranet\\public and
> it had no problem mounting it (the extra \
> characters being needed to get through shell
> escape processing).

Thanks, Tom. I have just tried

mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="myusername"
\\\\myserver.uni.edut\\myremotedir\$ /mnt/iso

but with no success.

Paul