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Re: mount device?

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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. :-(

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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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