On Mon, 20 May 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: > Here's a (sample) entry: > > //host/resource /mount/point smb username=foo,password=bar 0 0 > > Note that this is -insecure- since /etc/fstab is usually world-readable. > Be vewwy, vewwy careful when passwords are in plaintext. > Since I'm a one-man operation, that's not a big issue. If someone else gets in enough to read fstab, Ive got more to worry about than a windows password. :)
Regardless, there is no password required. Would the fstab then be: //host/resource /mount/point smb guest 0 0 Thanks! > -Ken > > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > > > Here at my office, when my Win98 machine boots, it mounts my Linux box > > as a Network Drive. > > > > I'd like to have My Linux box do the same, in reverse. I know the > > command line is: > > mount -t smbfs //dread/c /mnt/dread/c > > > > Which translates into the /etc/fstab entries as: > > //dread/c /mnt/dread/c smbfs noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > //dread/data /mnt/dread/d smbfs noauto,owner,ro 0 0 > > > > However, I still get prompted for a password. > > > > Is there a way I can make this happen? > > > > > > -- > > TARogue (Linux user number 234357) > > When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. > > -- Harry Truman > > > > > > ***************************************************************** > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > > ***************************************************************** > > > > > -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) "We shall never conquer Ireland while the Bards are there." --Elizabeth I of England. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
