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...ride specified ip address specified explicitly The fstab entry is: //earth/jobs /earth/jobs cifs noauto,users,username=dnh,password=dnh,uid=dnh,gid=dnh,port=2139,ip=earth 0 0 The invoking command is: mount -v /earth/jobs there is an ssh tunnel in place taking port localhost:2139 to the real host earth139 and the /etc/hosts file has earth as a synonym for localhost. do you see which operation is not permitted? or what might be going on? perhaps there is another option that is required? thanks, Don Huff.