[Samba] How to automate SMBMNT

[Michael Marano]

I have a tangential question based upon your response about the credentials file.
I have set up a smbmount to happen on boot in /etc/fstab, but am looking for a good
way to not be prompted for the password, and not have the password in plaintext
in /etc/fstab, or in a credentials file.  Do you know how I can acheive this?
Thanks for the help.
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Urban Widmark [mailto:urban at teststation.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:20 PM
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] How to automate SMBMNT


On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, lloydl wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> How do I automate smbmnt so that when logging on, it mounts the required 
> shared directories on an NT4.0 file system using the user name and 
> password I used t gain access to the GUI ?

You mean smbmount?

pam_mount will mount things at login time. But that's the full extent of
my knowledge on it.


> I s this possible. I am currently running Network Neighborhood and have 
> been using this application for access but this requires that I scan 
> mount and log-on again before gaining access to that share. I would like 
> to be able to add a shortcut to the desktop that will give me access to 
> that the share as well. Is this at all possible ?

If it's only for one user you can create an autofs mount that mounts the
//server/share when you access it, without asking for password if you give
it one in the cfg file (or in a separate file using the credentials
option).

/Urban

PS: 'lloydl at cat..co.za' doesn't look like a vaild email address.

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