[Samba] Mounting Share at Boot
Frank Matthieß
fm+samba at Microdata-POS.de
Mon Sep 30 08:09:02 GMT 2002
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:25:02PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> //DELL-4400/linux /root/mnt/DELL-4400/linux smbfs auto,user,rw,umask= 0 0 0
>
> When the system (Red Hat 7.2) is booting with the above line in fstab, it
> hangs up at the following point:
>
> "Mounting SMB filesystems:"
>
> If I hit Enter, the following message appears:
>
> "Password: SMB Connection Failed"
Where are the windows user and password?
Take a look at "man smbmount"
You would add
.., username=WindowsUser, password=WindowsPassword, ...
to the options, or better
..., credentials=FileName, ...
where the file FileName has the following content:
username = WindowsUser
password = WindowsPassword
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Frank Matthieß fm+samba at Microdata-pos.de
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