On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > 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
Well, being as I've never tried to mount a Windows resource that didn't require a password, I can't state anything authoritatively, but it certainly seems as if that would be correct. One way to find out, right? Just enter the line in your /etc/fstab, and do a "mount -a", and see what happens. One thing you might consider, though... since it's a Windows box, it might (eh-hem) have to reboot at some point; I believe you might get stale filehandles (though I honestly don't know). You might consider making this an automount point with a timeout. Yes, a fair bit of extra work (especially if you don't know automount), but awful handy. -Ken > 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. > ***************************************************************** > > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
