[GLLUG] Is there a Windows equivalent to /etc/fstab?

Caleb Cushing xenoterracide at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 12:34:19 EDT 2006


honestly I'm a bit confused. you can't map network drives? or you
regular smb/netbios/cifs whatever it is network shares? you can make it
so they aren't password protected.

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:18 -0400, Andy Lee wrote:
> I need to create some persistent connections to network shares from
> Windows servers, and haven't been able to figure out how to do it, so
> I'm hoping someone here might have done something similar. The problem
> is that Windows shares are tied to a log in, and the server generally
> isn't logged in. I want to somehow store the credentials so that a
> network share can be mounted and available to all user accounts on this
> machine. On Linux I would just add an entry to /etc/fstab (with the
> credentials in a different chmod 600 file ), but I can't find a Windows
> equivalent. 
> 
> Anyone know?
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