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Re: mount device?

From SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: mount device?
Date 2012-03-25 11:37 -0700
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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

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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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