You're being prompted for the password to send to the Windows system for authentication. You can put all this in /etc/fstab, but that will require you to also put the password in there for all to see.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Noll, Ralph Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux seeing windows files Post, Mark K wrote: > According to the Samba team, the preferred method is now this: > mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o > username=abcde,workgroup=etc... > > > Ok that works great, except why am i being asked for a password and how do i setup the mount to be permanent...like when i shutdown and restart Linux the mount will be there Ralph
