On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
TechGuy wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:04:27 -0500:
I know with most mailing lists its common practice to flame every newbie with "read" something emails.
this was not a flame at all.
Not only that, but the OP's question wasn't so much a mount.cifs question as a most fundamental question about mount itself. TechGuy, if you read what you wrote, unless you have just started using Linux last week, there are a lot of fundamental issues with the question you asked.
Please do avail yourself of the resources that abound on the web, particularly centos.org and many og the wikis you can find, and most importantly, look up what mount is and does. Then you can also take Scott's advice for testing your situation.
This list does not flame newbies except those who, like me, started off with an attitude and asked a lot of fundamentally stupid questions (I didn't do the research before hand - I do now!), and even so, all of the masters, except Jim, were still nice, and even he has a soft side, but don't tell him I admitted it....
Due diligence will get you a lot farther than shortcuts (largely because the shortcuts usually get responses like RTFM, GIYF and other, less kind four letter (words and) acronyms).
Best wishes.
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Please point out what shortcut that I tried to take? From my email, with the information I provided which I did get from various sources including the wiki tips and tricks, and other sites... If you read my questions you would see that I was asking for clarification on what I was understanding all these sources to say and imply.
I don't know what shortcut I was taking by asking what I asked?
Now I am just tired of having to defend myself for no good reason.
Sorry this has transpired, truly am because I was hoping for more both from CentOS and from the community that supports it and is always touting the values of Linux and OpenSource, I was hoping to become a convert finally but instead I am more discouraged now after the reponses I have gotten then I was before.