How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day! I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this mountpt //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 but I have no idea how will I specify the ip address of the server. using the mount_smbfs, I can mount it by

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this OK that is not really answering your question, but... Given that the samba server is a Unix machine, given that your client is a Unix machine, maybe NFS would be more efficient than samba fro

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread albi
hi, mountpt //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 you can probably use e.g. //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 in your /etc/fstab, but of course you can also add your samba-server in /etc/hosts ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:05:47PM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Good day! I wanted to mount our samba server whenever my computer boots so I added an entry in fstab like this mountpt //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 but I have no idea how will I

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
--- albi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, mountpt //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 you can probably use e.g. //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 It still doesn't work. I remember mounting it manually using the command mount_smbfs -I ipaddress //[EMAIL

Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

2004-11-03 Thread albi
you can probably use e.g. //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mp3 It still doesn't work. I remember mounting it manually using the command mount_smbfs -I ipaddress //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3s /mtpoint afair i've put a line like that in /etc/rc.local and it works for me (can't reach that machine