[linux-cifs-client] Re: mount a sub-directory

[Steve French (IBM LTC)]

The "device name" for cifs is \\server\share not \\server\share\path (NFS is one of
the few filesystems that allows such syntax).   To achieve the effect of mounting a
subdirectory, mount to \\server\share use the --bind option of mount to associate the
subdirectory with a different path.

This did expose a bug in Samba though ....

mount -t cifs //server/share1/share2 ...

ends up being treated by the server as a request to mount

mount -t cifs //server/share2  ...

which is incorrect and will usually fail.  This server bug is being fixed.

>
> From: Reinhold Jordan <r.jordan at asc.de>
> Subject: [linux-cifs-client] mount a sub-directory
> To: CIFS <linux-cifs-client at lists.samba.org>
> Message-ID: <41111334.3090705 at asc.de>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to mount a sub-directory without success:
>
>   mount.cifs //FILESERVER1/User/JordaRe1 /mnt/drive_U -o user=JordaRe1,pass=qwerty
>
> return this:
>
>   mount error 22 = Invalid argument
>   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> After some experiments I found that there should no
> sub-directory in this option. So
>
>   mount.cifs //FILESERVER1/User /mnt/drive_U -o user=JordaRe1,pass=qwerty
>
> works fine. But I have no rights on this directory. And a
>
>   cd /mnt/drive_U/JordaRe1
>
> does not work. I found also, that the konqueror from KDE can show
> this with
>
>   smb://FILESERVER1/User/JordaRe1
>
> on another PC. But mounting is also impossible there. Is there any way to
> mount this?
>
> Regards, Reinhold
>
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