$mp = "/mnt/mylinuxmountpoint"; $winshare = "//windowsservername/windowsshare"; RHEL3 $mount = "/bin/mount -t smbfs -o username=hari9,password=hari9password,workgroup=hari9doomainname"; Older versions of the 2.4 kernel use smbfs and newer versions use cifs. RHEL5 $mount = "/bin/mount -t cifs -o username=hari9,password=hari9password,workgroup=hari9doomainname"; sub Mnt { my ($mntcmd,$mount,$share,$mp); ($mount,$share,$mp) = @_; $mntcmd = "$mount $share $mp"; system("$mntcmd"); } Mnt($mount,$winshare,$mp);