Ok, I'm an idiot. I had cifs mounted shares from an xp home machine working just fine previously, only I had it scripted on my N800 and when I flashed the new OS, the script was wiped -- the one thing I didn't backup. Only now I can't get cifs working again.

The mount command example on the 'master how-to' page:

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowToAccessWindowsCIFS

-- at least with my fonts -- is totaly screwed up -- extra single quotes, double quotes, double asterisks, underscores instead of some spaces, etc. -- but regardless:

I swear I am doing everything the same as before -- and I am doing very similar mounts on my hauppauge mediamvp's [busybox] and they work fine still.

I'm using [as root]:

mount -t cifs //192.168.2.201/Noky /Noky -o password=guest

[virtually the same command as on the mvp.]

There is a /Noky directory in MyDocs/.documents and the Noky directory is shared by that name from the 201 xp machine, and I can ping the xp machine [and yes, I did the insmod of the 800 cifs.ko on the 800].

I have tried adding the domain name, but I'm pretty sure never needed it or a user name [I'm not sure what user name it should be anyway?] -- I don't need it with busybox on the mvp's.

Worse, no matter how I mangle the above command [non-existent ip address, non existent directory names, etc], I always get the same error message:

mount: mounting ... {all the information I just supplied} ... failed

No other diagnostics. Could it be that the cifs.ko didn't get in properly? It won't let me do a second insmod, so I'm assuming it's OK.

Please help the idiot...

Download the script in this post and modifieit to your likeings.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=7178

Actually, I already did try to download that script -- several times -- but all I get is 827 bytes, and winzip says it isn't a valid zip.

use winrar or 7zip

Here is another try.

Ok, got that one -- but it kind of looks like I need something defined in fstab, no?

Yeap... let me post an example when I get home.