[Samba] Mounting shares using fstab at bootup

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Thu Jun 6 06:57:06 GMT 2002


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Tom Ansley wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have changed my workstation fstab file to include 3 shares on the server 
> that I want to mount during boot up.  But, I had to include my username and 
> password inside the fstab file.  Does anybody have any other ways of doing 
> this considering that the fstab file is readable by anybody?

man smbmount, see the credentials option for a way to put the info in a 
separate file that can be made root readonly.

/Urban





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