In mount.cifs.c's parse_unc(), there's a FIXME to support IPv6 path parsing. Is there any reason that simply grabbing the last instance of the ':' character wouldn't work? Something like this: @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ static int parse_unc(const char *unc_name, struct parsed_mount_info *parsed_info * FIXME: IPv6 addresses? */ host = unc_name; - share = strchr(host, ':'); + share = strrchr(host, ':'); if (!share) { fprintf(stderr, "mount.cifs: bad UNC (%s)\n", unc_name); return EX_USAGE; I'm reasonably sure that somebody smarter than myself has already thought of this, so there must be more to the problem that I'm seeing. -- Peace and Blessings, -Scott. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html