On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at 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. > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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.