The path available to your startups scripts is not the same path available to regular users. I would use /root/.credentials (Or where ever that file is) instead of ~/.credentials.
Joel On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:50:42PM -0800, George, John wrote: > Joel, > Thanks for the script commands. The smbmount command is working fine in the > startup script as long as I use username= and password=, or > username=username%password. However, when I try to use the credentials= > option, I receive an error upon startup 'Can't open credentials'. > > I created a hidden file called credentials: ~/.credentials > > The format for the command is: > > smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/sharename -o credentials=~/.credentials > > I can run the command manually and am successfull. I have also tried: > > chmod 777 ~/.credentials and am still only able to run this manually. > > I prefer to use the hidden credentials file. > > Thanks for your help! > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:31 PM > To: George, John; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] smbmount > > > One way to is put the smbmount commands into your network startup script. > > Remember that you don't need to be running nmbd or smbd to run smbmount. > > So, in your network script, at the end of the start section, put in the > smbmount commmand. This will run with root priviledge, so you might > want to read about the uid and gid options of smbmount. > > I would also put an umount command in the shutdown part > of the script, so these mounts will be gracefully umounted when the network > goes down. > > I use this script to kill all smbmounts when my network goes down: > > mount | grep " type smbfs " | sed 's/^.*on *//' | sed 's/ *type.*//' \ > | sed 's/ /\\\ /g' | xargs -n1 -i{} umount {} > > I suspect there are simpler ways of getting this done, like killall > smbmount, but, this works, at least on my machine. > > Joel > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:21:01PM -0800, George, John wrote: > > Sorry, I restarted the machine. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:17 PM > > To: George, John; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Samba] smbmount > > > > > > What are you restarting? > > > > Joel > > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:08:02PM -0800, George, John wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have successfully mounted 2 directories using smbmount. However, when > I > > > restart, they are no longer mounted. > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
