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authorKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-02-02 11:46:39 +0100
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2009-07-30 09:22:10 +0200
commit51c9822b0cffeabd6cdd6b17e96e97dccc3c6517 (patch)
tree6f5db0294b79ca3b3bdad79efad907b706993e51
parent1da87f537554dc26563417d95bf5885630a336f4 (diff)
downloadsamba-51c9822b0cffeabd6cdd6b17e96e97dccc3c6517.tar.gz
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)
-rw-r--r--docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
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.
</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>