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Can all you OS X xperts help me?

OS X Leopard 10.5.6:

mount -t cifs -o username=name,password=secret //server/share /mnt/dir

Works from every linux box I have ever used. This does not work from the OS X terminal. Why?

The gui/finder/go: cifs://server/share just works... command line no?

Ubuntoo, Gentoo, SuSe all work what's up with OS X.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Are you running it in a terminal with sufficient access? Root may be needed. Does it give any sort of error message?

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Well

Turns out that:

OS X fakes out gui users by allowing the cifs tag to be used by the "connect to server" dialog but uses smbfs under the covers.

Thus the only way to connect is (as far as I can tell):

Code:

mount -t smbfs //user:pass@server/share /mountpoint/dir

hmmmm.....

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