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authorKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-02-02 11:46:39 +0100
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-02-02 11:46:39 +0100
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docs: Describe "service" in man mount.cifs.
This fixes bug #5346. Thanks to the Debian Samba package maintainers for reporting and providing a patch! Karolin
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diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
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+++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
@@ -43,10 +43,13 @@ by the popular Open Source server Samba.
</para>
<para>
- The mount.cifs utility attaches the UNC name (exported network resource) to
- the local directory <emphasis>mount-point</emphasis>. It is possible to set the mode for mount.cifs to
-setuid root to allow non-root users to mount shares to directories for which they
-have write permission.
+ The mount.cifs utility attaches the UNC name (exported network resource)
+ specified as <emphasis>service</emphasis> (using //server/share syntax,
+ where "server" is the server name or IP address and "share" is the name
+ of the share) to the local directory <emphasis>mount-point</emphasis>.
+ It is possible to set the mode for mount.cifs to setuid root to allow
+ non-root users to mount shares to directories for which they
+ have write permission.
</para>
<para>