On Fri, March 28, 2008 3:59 pm, Edward Kerr wrote: > > > I cannot recall who actually gave me this idea, but it did not work! It > was the gentleman who was running Ubuntu from a USB stick on a Sony Vaio > > I am trying to mount my NAS at boot or log-in. > > the command that works perfectly from the command line is: > > sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.18/data /mnt/mini -o > username=admin,password=admin,fmask=0777,dmask=0777 > > (All one line) > > How do I do this automatically? > > Do I use FSTAB, but if so how?
You can: First, I suggest putting a line for the NAS in /etc/hosts: e.g. 192.168.1.18 nas Then add the following to /etc/fstab: //nas/data /mountpoint smbfs credentials=/home/admin/.smbpasswd,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 where uid and gid are the numbers taken from /etc/passwd (e.g. admin:x:1000:1000::/home/admin:/bin/bash) Finally create the credentials file (/home/admin/.smbpasswd) with the following contents: username=admin password=admin And make it read-only for admin and root with the command: chmod 600 /home/admin/.smbpasswd HTH Malc -- Web Development, Technical Copy-Editing & Proofreading KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
