Mike Miller cried from the depths of the abyss... > Now with Windows, nothing works. In fact, despite fairly > considerable effort, we are not yet able to mount any CIFS directory share. > I had similar problems when our first 2008 R2 boxes arrived on the scene. This worked for me: mkcifsmnt -f /$localpath -d /$sharepath -h $serverhost -c $user -p $passwort -m CIFS -a -t -rw -u $UID -g $GID -w $DOMAIN this creates an entry to /etc/filesystems too, and user credentials will be stored in /etc/cifs_fs/cifscred What version of Samba are you running? > Apparently, as I said, the problem was not that Linux was lacking features > but that it was slow. That was all. I really just want to find a way to > make it faster and not learn how to accept life with Windows. > I have been experiencing the same issues with speed over here, and to be honest it at times is quite maddening! I am curious if you have made any forward progress on this front? > I was hoping *not* to hear a series of comments essentially saying, "I, > for one, accept our Microsoft overlords." If you say this with your fingers crossed it doesn't count. Mr. B-o-B