Well, this certainly works, as long as you don't want non-root users to be able do the mount. Cool. I searched, though, and the man page for smbmnt and smbmount (as well mount) don't mention the "credentials=" parameter. How did you happen to know about it? I'd like to make mention of wherever it might be documented on linuxvm.org.
Mark Post P.S., before anyone else tries it too, I tried to put the workgroup= parameter in the credentials file, and the mount failed. So, it looks like that value needs to stay in /etc/fstab. Oh well, it is still tons better than trying to play with the permissions on /etc/fstab! -----Original Message----- From: Herve Bonvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE : linux seeing windows files You could also try the following : in /etc/fstab //server/share /mountpoint smbfs rw,workgroup=xxxxx,uid=501,credentials=/home/user/cred 0 0 in file /home/user/cred username=yyyyyyy password=xxxxxxxxx chmod 600 /home/user/cred Regards, Herve -----Original Message----- From: Kern, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux seeing windows files Does /etc/fstab have to be world-readable? Will a linux system boot up if /etc/fstab is set to 0500 and owned by root? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Troth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:58 > 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... > > 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; >
