Thanks for the tip.  I wasn't real happy about having a username and
password in that file.  Now I know how to get around it.

Larry R. Pint
National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc.
larry.pint at ntuminc.com
952-229-3451
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Saxton [mailto:jsaxton at cems.umn.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:52 PM
> To: Larry R. Pint
> Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Mounting smbfs drive
> 
> I would suggest creating a Samba credentials file. Simply create a
file
> (ie: ~/.smbcred) with the lines:
> username=your_username
> password=your_password
> 
> I chmodded this file 700.
> 
> Now you can put the following in your fstab file:
> //ir01/images /mnt/ir smbfs uid=563,
> credentials=/home/your_local_user_name/.smbcred 0 0
> 
> This is more secure as your samba password isn't directly in your
> /etc/fstab file (which is system readable).
> 
> HTH,
> John
> 
> Larry R. Pint wrote:
> >
> > 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:///%5C%5Ccomputer_name%5Cshare_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
nn
> ame/ourdomain
> > 0 0
> >
> > \\e-mail-receiver\dropfax$
<file:///%5C%5Ce-mail-receiver%5Cdropfax$>
> > /mnt/dropfax smbfs
> >
>
password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=admi
nn
> ame/ourdomain
> > 0 0
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas you might have.
> >
> > Larry R. Pint
> >
> > National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc.
> >
> > larry.pint at ntuminc.com <mailto:larry.pint at ntuminc.com>
> >
> > 952-229-3451
> >
> >
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