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

Chick Tower c.e.tower at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 16:14:55 EDT 2006


I haven't done any system admin since WinNT 4.0, so maybe this file no 
longer exists.  Would you be able to put the appropriate connection 
commands in the server's autoexec.bat?

                                Chick

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. 




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