[Samba] Mounting a Samba Share in /etc/fstab

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Fri Nov 29 23:14:01 GMT 2002


Why can't you just put the smbmount command in your startup scripts?
It would go nicely in your samba startup script, for example, although I do
not believe you need to be running smbd to use smbmount.
You could also put it into your network startup script.
Joel

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:30:03PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> As most of you know, I've been having problems (hopefully solved by now, won't know until friend is 
> able to reshare his box) with SAMBA over the internet.
> 
> On my local area network, I am using SAMBA for a one way connection just fine. my question is as 
> follows.
> 
> Can I make an fstab entry so I can mount the XP share whenever I boot? The reason I ask is because 
> currently Wine can't properly detect the c:\windows dir on the XP box and I'd like to be able to use 
> some of the program (e.g. games) on my Linux box.
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