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

[Benjamin Minshall]

Andy,

I believe there is no way to do what you want.  I've spent a lot of time 
researching that possibility for one of my previous projects and could 
find no reliable method of accessing network shares (smb or nfs) via a 
Windows service.  It would be great if Windows had the capability to 
mount shares at the "driver level" so they appear just like a physical 
media drive letter to the running applications, but I haven't found 
anything that allows mapping without binding to a user login/logout.

Windows Services for Unix allows the mapping of NFS shares to drive 
letters, but is still bound by user names, login and logout events.

-Ben

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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