I have a (hopefully) simple question about mounting a shared drive on a Windows machine under Linux (Red Hat release 9). In the fstab file, should I list the Windows drives to be mounted by their windows way of naming (\\computer_name\share_name <file:///\\computer_name\share_name> ) or the Linux way of naming (//computer_name/share_name)? I'm currently using the windows naming format. Could that be causing problems with the mounting of the drives? The reason I'm asking is that we have a drive that was mounting correctly for quite some time (over a year). Now we've added mounting of another drive and it sometimes hangs up on a reboot at the point of mounting the smb drives (as far as I can tell). Once mounted, both drives work. The new drive was added to fstab immediately after the original drive. (I just copied and modified the line from the working drive.) They are the last two lines in the file. The two lines are: \\ir01\images$ /mnt/ir smbfs password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=admi nname/ourdomain 0 0 \\e-mail-receiver\dropfax$ <file:///\\e-mail-receiver\dropfax$> /mnt/dropfax smbfs password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=admi nname/ourdomain 0 0 Thanks for any ideas you might have. Larry R. Pint National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc. larry.pint at ntuminc.com 952-229-3451 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060828/7f026bdd/attachment.htm