hi! I need to mount a window share on a network. im using fedora 13. i created a perl script myscript.pl. this is its content: 
my $cmd = "sudo mount -o username='admin',password='',rw,uid='customer
+',gid='customer' '//192.168.1.103/shared' '/home/customer/mnt'";
my $res = `$cmd`;

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if i ran the script on a terminal (eg. open terminal ang type perl myscript.pl) it was able to mount properly. but the problem here is that if i called the script via a shortcut (launcher) it simply doesnt mount. not sure what is happening. so i tried this.. 
my $cmd = "sudo mount -o username='admin',password='',rw,uid='customer
+',gid='customer' '//192.168.1.103/shared' '/home/customer/mnt'";
my $res = `gnome-terminal -e "$cmd"`;

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it now works, but the problem is that i dont know how to wait for the mounting. my script simply opens a gnome-terminal then continues with the script and exits. it didnt even wait for the mounting to complete. i need to catch if it mounted or not. so how can i do this?

In reply to mount cifs using perl and sudo and mount by Anonymous Monk

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