HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

Commandline Utilities

cifsmount

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IP address of server. By default, the hostname of the

server is taken from the server speciﬁcation of the

share. This must also be the Netbios host name of the

server, if the server enforces correct Netbios names. HP

CIFS Client uses Domain Name Server instead of

Netbios to resolve server names to IP addresses. If the

DNS name of the server is different from the Netbios

name, you may supply the DNS name or the server's IP

address with this parameter. It is ignored if the server

is already connected.

-p <

portnumber

Sets the connection port. Netbios connections are

usually made on port 139. If you want to connect on a

different port, you can supply a decimal port number

with this parameter. This parameter is ignored if the

server is already connected.

-r Mounts as read-only ﬁlesystem.

-U <

username

Username sent to server. By default, the HP CIFS

Client accesses the server under the same user name

as the login name of the user that issues the

cifsmount command. If you have a different user

name at the server, you may use this option to set that

name. It is ignored if you are already logged in at the

server.

-P <

password

Password given in commandline. Use this option only if

necessary, because all commandline parameters may

show up in the output of the ps command. It gives you

the possibility to pass a dynamically generated

password to the server. The password is ignored if the

user is already logged in at the server.

-S Reads the password from stdin. This option may be

useful if you want to use cifsmount from a shell script

or another program. The -P option is insecure for this

purpose because the UNIX command ps can show the

commandline parameters of running processes.