On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 17:07, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 19:47, mick wrote: > > My server 24/7 ... the system does hang, painfully during the boot process, I > > think using fstab without passwd's is causing the problem, but I'll be > > buggered if I'm going to put palin text passwds into fstab!! > > New versions of samba support the credentials= option in fstab, which > lets you specify a file to read a username and password from. So you > can have a line like the following in your fstab: > //stage/swads_test /mnt smbfs credentials=/etc/domain-login 0 0
Note: you can just make fstab rw------- and root:root then put your smb passwd in there. Most people seem to think fstab has to be readable to everyone but it don't. Everything still works fine. Not the best solution sure but better than nothing. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
