Would it be possible to change or add another mounting method for samba, instead of using smbclient -L <host> -U <username> To change this to use the standard URI format of smbclient smb://<username>:<password>@<host> and to mount mount smb://<username>:<password>@<host>/<shared folder> The current format is fine but if we could use a standard format for all network access it would improve the consistency. Thanks Karl PS. It would also be nice to use the same format for nfs etc. how likely do you think it is that the community at large would be willing to accept this format, we already use this method for http ftp and similar? Any thoughts are welcome.