simply add username=user,password=pass, before the noauto, make sure you
have the comma after the pass and before the noauto, no spaces :-)

JeremyB.


>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Fisher Family [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, 14 January 2002 6:35 p.m.
> To:   Linux Users Group
> Subject:      More progress
> 
> 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
> 
>                -----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
> 

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