After some replies, more experimenting and reading, I added the lines below to the /etc/fstab file which seems to work to make icons on my desktop which I can mount the shared windows drives with.
//Sydog/C /winshare/Sydog_C smbfs noauto,_netdev,user 0 0 //Sydog/D /winshare/Sydog_D smbfs noauto,_netdev,user 0 0 //X/C /winshare/X_C smbfs noauto,_netdev,user 0 0 Next Question: What do I change to allow the above to work as a user rather than root? I also get prompted for root password when I try Internet dialling as a user. Is it as simple as adding the user into more groups and if so which groups? Fisher Family Christchurch http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/fisher.family <http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/fisher.family> -----Original Message----- From: Fisher Family [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 14 January 2002 8:00 a.m. To: Linux Users Group Subject: Much progress Remember me? As a new Linux user, I asked the group in December for some help to get past some initial hurdles. After surfing/reading, advice from some of you and even one person coming to my home I now have Internet connection sharing working and sharing between Linux, Win98, Win 200 and WinXP. Thanks to all of you who offered advice. Next Question: I used the following procedure to "mount a windows share.... Create directory e.g /share To mount....type smbmount //winsys/winshare some-mount-point Example for me (X = Win PC, C = share name) smbmount //X/C /share To unmount (my example) smbumount -t smbfs /share Is there a way this can be done automatically (even if the Windows PC is off)? Robert Fisher Family Christchurch http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/fisher.family <http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/fisher.family>
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