On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, TechGuy <techguy at gmail.com> wrote: > I have been trying to mount a windows file share so I can use it for > remote storage particularly for my Deki Wiki attachments. > > Anyway, I seem to have a mount established by doing the following. > > 1. Added following line to /etc/fstab > > //fs01/wikidata /var/www/dekiwiki/attachments cifs > user,uid=500,rw,suid,username=wikisvcacct,password=testpwd,domain=corporate > > 2. Then ran following command to mount it. > > mount //fs01/wikidata > > 3. Then ran following command to confirm mount. > > df > > Output of 'df': > > //fs01/wikidata 1821803064 1435671544 386131520 79% > /var/www/dekiwiki/attachments > > This would appear to indicate the mount was successful correct? > > If I understand this whole thing, if i change directory to > /var/www/dekiwiki/attachments would I then be using or looking at > //fs01/wikidata ? Or am I still looking at the local file system? > Or does it depend on the user? > > Since I set this up for the dekiwiki user with uid=500, would I logged > in as root be able to access this mount or do I need to add another > line in the /etc/fstab for root? At this point I suggest you read some documentations as well as man page for mount.cifs as suggested in the forum post you started: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15510&forum=37 You can learn and find answers by reading. I think this is important. Akemi