I recently hit an exciting and hard to solve problem at work, or at least my colleague and co-web wrangler did. You see at New Internationalist our office network is a mix of *nix, windows and mac machines. We use various Samba servers to host all our documents. So its pretty important to browse …

Note: This post was written in 2008. It might or might not still work. I’ve not had time to test. YMMV!This is a mini-howto which shows one way to get round an annoying bug in mount.cifs that doesn't look like getting fixed any time soon.When using smbmount you can have …