[Samba] Mounting smbfs as guest at boot time

[Sue Spence]

I have searched for a solution to my problem, and have
only found one short discussion which mentioned it
(http://samba.cadcamlab.org/lists/samba/Aug2001/msg00364.html),
and I didn't feel it contained a resolution I could
use.  In a nutshell, I want to mount an win2k share as
'guest' at boot time on a linux web server.[1]  It
just won't work any way that I've tried it.

I can quite easily mount a share as guest any time
after boot. I can put the following in /etc/fstab:

//2kserver/test  /opt/win2k   smbfs  auto,guest,ro 0 0

#mount -a (or mount -at smbfs) works great.

I can also use smbmount or whatever.  The only time it
doesn't work is if I put it in /etc/init.d/smbfs,
which is then called at the appropriate time in the
boot process. It produces an ERRnoaccess error (tree
connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
, even though the exact same command works just great
from the command line immediately after boot.  I got
the impression from the one discussion I found that
'guest' mount won't work. Is there a patch for this?
Do I have to coordinate with the PC-ians and use some
other user and set up credentials & so on?  I'd rather
not use automount if I can help it.  The files will
need to be available whenever they are called for via
http, so I'd just rather they were mounted at boot up
(and I'll write a cron job to check the mount if need
be).

Any pointers, suggestions will be gratefully received!

-sue

[1] I have a requirement to allow some windows
developers put files that they want served from a
linux web site onto a pc running win2000 server.
Simply put, I just want to be able to mount one or
more win2k shares from this pc, and I want to do it at
boot time if possible. I would like to do it as the
user 'guest' to avoid all passwords. I don't want to
learn about credentials or anything win-centric like
that if I can avoid it, and I also hope that 'guest'
is a restricted user who can't do much damage if the
unthinkable occurs (somebody r00ts the web server -
though this probably won't afford any real
protection).



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