Re: mount device?

From	SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: mount device?
Date	2012-03-25 11:43 -0700
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On Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:37:25 PM UTC-6, SpreadTooThin wrote:
> On Sunday, March 25, 2012 11:59:03 AM UTC-6, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > SpreadTooThin wrote:
> > > On Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:03:53 PM UTC-6, SpreadTooThin wrote:
> > 
> > > When mounted in the finder df shows this:
> > > //GUEST:@cisco/MyDisk 1953043136  98994624 1854048512     6%    /Volumes/MyDisk
> > >
> > 
> > That's an SMB (samba/CIFS) mount. The offical Microsoft format is 
> > \\<computername>\<sharename>
> > 
> > Samba implemented the use of / instead of \ because you would have to escape
> > the backslashes and enter \\\\<computer>\\<share>
> > 
> > The Guest:@ is user name and password (null in this case).
> > 
> > cisco resolves to an ip address using the windows directory service, instead
> > of the DNS service. 
> > 
> > I can't try it to see if MacOS accepts it, all of my smb servers dns names
> > match their windows names.
> > 
> > You could try the IP address for them, do a netstat -rn and see what your
> > default address is, that may work. 
> > 
> > Note that SAMBA is different in Lion than previous releases.
> > 
> > Geoff.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
> > My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(
> 
> Thanks Geoffrey.
> 
> I'm pretty sure cisco resolved to 192.168.1.1  (The router/gateway that the device is attached to.)
> 
> Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
> default            192.168.1.1        UGSc           33        0     en1

mount -t smbfs //GUEST@192.168.1.1/MyDisk /Volumes/MyDisk

I created the directory MyDisk first...

Thanks.

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mount device? SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com> - 2012-03-24 14:03 -0700
  Re: mount device? SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 10:38 -0700
    Re: mount device? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-25 17:59 +0000
      Re: mount device? SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 11:37 -0700
        Re: mount device? SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 11:43 -0700

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