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The Mvix does not "mount" its external CIFS shares when it uses them, it just juses SMB commands to fetch the dircetories and files it needs. But if you run a modified firmware with telnet support, you might want to mount the CIFS shares just to copy media onto local storage. So this is how you go about doing that:

First, create the directory where the share should be mounted:

1. Locate a suitable mount point somewhere that the GUI will see. The easiest way of doing this is having an internal disk and creating a directory on that, since the GUI will let you traverse all such disks. Mine is ext3 formatted, so I can do this while logged in.

way:/tmp/ide/part1# df

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/root                 6986      6986         0 100% /

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 283855840    215820 268988340   0% /tmp/ide/part1

Create the mount point

way:/tmp/ide/part1# mkdir /tmp/ide/part1/data

Verify that it’s been created

way:/tmp/ide/part1# ls /tmp/ide/part1/data

Then mount the remote CIFS share using the smbmount_client command:

 way:~# smbmount_simple //home/video /tmp/ide/part1/data -o username=guest

Where home is the dns name of my CIFS server, /video is the share name and /tmp/ide/part1/data is a directory/mount point I had created earlier on my internal hard drive. All on one command line, make sure your share name and login information is correct for your setup. You will be prompted for a password, type it in or just hit return if your CIFS setup does not require you to provide one. And then see the result:
 

way:~# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 6986      6986         0 100% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1283855840    215820 268988340   0% /tmp/ide/part1
none                 … … …  91% /tmp/ide/part1/data

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