> 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...
One of the options being "password=". > 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 You can include "password=". Obviously that is otherwise a no no. But the problem is that you need to pass credentials. Perhaps someone else knows how to make it work w/o scribbling the password into your /etc/fstab file. I think I understand WHY you get prompted but I surely don't know how to stop it. -- R;
