CIFS: Deprecating NFS mounting syntax in mount.cifs

[Scott Lovenberg]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 07:02 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:37 +0200
>> steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/23/2012 05:56 PM, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
>>> Currently, we have this map: * -fstype=cifs,rw,sec=krb5
>>> ://myserver/myshare/&
>>
>> Does that really work? What purpose does the ':' serve there?
>
> Yes. They always put a ':' before the mount except for the default NFS. I
> took a look at the example /etc/auto.misc which comes (commented out) with
> openSUSE. They always put a ':'.

I double checked this.  The ':' is a token for the automounter that
tells it that it's a local device.  You could probably remove that
character.  http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Automount.html#s4

-- 
Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.