Can't mount subdirectory in a cifs share

[gds]

While porting a backup script to the router and trying to mount a windows share on rt-ac56u (380.57) I discovered that I can't mount a subdirectory of the share like I could on desktop linux. For example, for host HH if my share is called SS and the directory at the root of the share is called SD this fails on the router:

mount //HH/SS/SD /cifs1 -t cifs -o username=uuuu,password=pppp
mount: mounting //HH/SS/SD on /cifs1 failed: No such device or address

Maybe this is due to older kernel or smb client code? Anyhow, my workaround is to just mount the whole share:

mount //HH/SS /cifs1 -t cifs -o username=uuuu,password=pppp

Don't see any mention in changelog or git history log that latest version, 380.61, affects this.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Have you tried using double backslashes and quotes as described in the wiki (this used to be in the README)?

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Mounting-remote-CIFS-shares

You can mount remote SMB shares on your router. The syntax will be something like this:

mount \\\\192.168.1.100\\ShareName /cifs1 -t cifs -o "username=User,password=Pass"

(backslashes must be doubled.)

 

[gds]

Have you tried using double backslashes and quotes as described in the wiki (this used to be in the README)?

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Mounting-remote-CIFS-shares

Yes, I tried that but it didn't help for mounting a share's subdirectory. I think "modern" windows (NT 3.x or later?) generally accepts normal unix style forward slashes so the escaped backslashes aren't really necessary. At least I've never had to use them when doing cifs mounts in desktop distros of gnu/Linux.