[GLLUG] smbfs fstab?

[Charles Ulrich]

Karl Schuttler wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to have samba shares mounted at boot (using
> smbmount, or otherwise), in a way similar to fstab?
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First, have samba installed, which should include the mount.cifs 
program. (Or mount.smbfs if you change the fstype in the line below to 
"smbfs" rather than "cifs". I believe mount.smbfs is being deprecated.)

In my /etc/fstab (imagine it's all one one line):

//server/share /home/user/share cifs 
credentials=/root/.nsmbrc,uid=user,gid=users,file_mode=0600,dir_mode=0700,_netdev,nosuid,nodev 
0 0

I have it mounted into my home directory partly because I'm the only one 
on the machine who accesses the samba share and partly because I'm the 
only one on the machine.

The syntax for the creditials file is:

username=<username>
password=<password>

where the strings to the right of the equals signs without the brackets 
are your actual username and password for the share.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com