Cifs mounting not working on F8

[Ed Greshko]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 1:07 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> Should not the following command return other thing
> 
> # ls -l /sbin/mount.cifs
> ls: cannot access /sbin/mount.cifs: No such file or directory

Do you have the samba-client package installed?  I believe mount.cifs is
part of it.