From: Karolin Seeger Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:46:39 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs: Describe "service" in man mount.cifs. X-Git-Tag: samba-3.0.36~34 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51c9822b0cffeabd6cdd6b17e96e97dccc3c6517;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git 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 (cherry picked from commit 73f4fc1f802f31459b70dba4777d142d00fcdd92) (cherry picked from commit ab4768452811e67f6606253b5a79101184f777d0) (cherry picked from commit 876b0b001976226a7c1887570c08178d72842a48) (cherry picked from commit 72655775487617e2f76836a7b16bee81e430f6f1) --- diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml index 86242a234a4..a292e82e79e 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml @@ -43,10 +43,13 @@ by the popular Open Source server Samba. - The mount.cifs utility attaches the UNC name (exported network resource) to - the local directory mount-point. 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 service (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 mount-point. + 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.