Akemi, I know with most mailing lists its common practice to flame every newbie with "read" something emails. But in this case I have been reading, and I think maybe if you had read my email below and my post you pointed out you would have realized that I have been reading and trying. As for the man page for mount.cifs it is garbage to a newbie. It really is. Sure it gives you all the various switches / arguments but that is really it. Show me where in the man page does it even mention /etc/fstab ? Your reply served absolutely no purpose and helped in no way. I believe I asked valid questions on understanding what I have done so far and how things work, I didn't ask for "how do I do this... or that". Sorry you feel I have wasted your time. On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >