From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Lovenberg Subject: Re: CIFS: Deprecating NFS mounting syntax in mount.cifs Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:32:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1350583669-12118-1-git-send-email-scott.lovenberg@gmail.com> <5086BE25.8080102@gmail.com> <5086CA29.8030305@steve-ss.com> <20121023130238.6100255d@corrin.poochiereds.net> <5086D258.1020203@steve-ss.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Jeff Layton , linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, smfrench-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, samba-w/Ol4Ecudpl8XjKLYN78aQ@public.gmane.org, samba-technical-w/Ol4Ecudpl8XjKLYN78aQ@public.gmane.org To: steve Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5086D258.1020203-dZ4O0aZtNmBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, steve wrote: > On 10/23/2012 07:02 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: >> >> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:37 +0200 >> steve wrote: >> >>> On 10/23/2012 05:56 PM, Scott Lovenberg wrote: >>> Currently, we have this map: * -fstype=cifs,rw,sec=krb5 >>> ://myserver/myshare/& >> >> Does that really work? What purpose does the ':' serve there? > > Yes. They always put a ':' before the mount except for the default NFS. I > took a look at the example /etc/auto.misc which comes (commented out) with > openSUSE. They always put a ':'. I double checked this. The ':' is a token for the automounter that tells it that it's a local device. You could probably remove that character. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Automount.html#s4 -- Peace and Blessings, -Scott.