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

James jhall at jadeinternet.net
Fri Nov 29 23:20:00 GMT 2002


Here is an excerpt from a reply to a prior post of mine. This works well
on my machine, and should help you:
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:45, Simeonidis, Steve wrote:
> I haven't played with permissions much but I've got the following
> line in my /etc/fstab file and it works fine.
> 
> 
> //abinidi/common        /abinidi/common         smbfs
> uid=500,gid=500,credentials=/etc/smbmount_passwd,workgroup=SGL-AUS,rw
0 0
> 
> The content of the smbmount_passwd is
> username = xxxxxxx
> password = xxxxxx
> 
> owned by root.
> 
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 15:30, 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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