I’m maintaining a heterogeneous network of mac and linux so I decided to create a little perl script to unify mounting strategies across machines.
The current implementation in linux is in /etc/fstab works fine:
//myserverhere.com/cifs_share /mnt/cifs_share cifs
user,uid=65001,rw,workgroup=DEV,credentials=/root/.cifs 0 0
and /root/.cifs contains
username=ouruser
password=ourpassword
I tried translating that to a non-fstab format as follows:
mount.cifs //myserverhere.com/cifs_share /mnt/cifs_share user,uid=65001,rw,workgroup=DEV,credentials=/root/.cifs
But it doesn’t seem to work.
Can someone point out what I’m doing wrong please?
Thanks in advance.
Ismael Casimpan 
Syntax of mount.cifs:
mount.cifs {service} {mount-point} [-o options]
You need to pass the options after the “-o”; for example, if your options are rigth (not tested) your command should be:
mount.cifs //myserverhere.com/cifs_share /mnt/cifs_share -o user,uid=65001,rw,workgroup=DEV,credentials=/root/.cifs
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