In addition to the mount command
discussed in the previous section, which was used to explicitly
create a single mount, there are other methods to manage the mounting
of CIFS file systems. See the reference for mount_cifs and umount_cifs in Chapter 4 for syntax
details not contained in this section.
Using /etc/fstab |
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By creating entries in /etc/fstab you
can mount CIFS filesystems automatically at boot time, or mount
multiple CIFS file systems on one or more CIFS Servers, with a single
command entered manually. The format for such entries is:
server:/share mount_point cifs defaults
0 0
Then, to mount all CIFS entries in /etc/fstab manually,
enter:
$ mount -aF cifs
To unmount all currently mounted CIFS filesystems, enter:
$ umount -aF cifs
These commands will occur automatically, at bootup and shutdown, if the
system is configured to start the CIFS Client at bootup, as explained above.
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service is only supported on HP-UX release 11i version 2. For HP-UX
release 11.0 and 11i, attempting mount CIFS filesystems via AutoFS
may cause hung processes to remain in the system process table and
may make the mount point directory inaccessable |
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How
to Mount and Login in One Step |
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The root user has the option to mount a CIFS filesystem and
login to the CIFS Server in one step, obviating the need to explicitly
issue the cifslogin command.
Using the names from the examples above:
$ mount -F cifs -o username=x,password=y
buildsys:/source home/dev1/source
where x and y are
the name and password pair recognized by the server.
Depricated
mount and unmount commands |
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The cifsmount and cifsumount commands provide equivalent functionality
to mount and umount, but HP discourages their use.They require
different syntax and may not be available in future releases of the HP
CIFS Client. man pages for these commands are provided in Chapter 5
of this manual for historical reasons.
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