[Samba] Re: automount shares

[Mark Keir]

Adam, 

Rather than using /etc/fstab (works fine), for users  with different
share requirements, you could set up a mount point in autofs.  In the
/etc/auto.master file, set up the mount point and connection file 

/home/user/mnt /etc/auto.user --timeout=60 

Then in your /etc/auto.user file, set up the specific share connection
(sub appropriate values for user, uid and IP/share) 

xpbox
-fstype=smbfs,credentials=/home/user/etc/domain.credentials,uid=xxx,rw 
://10.0.0.1/temp\$ 

You can set up multiple samba credential files for different domains
(NT, AD etc) which gives excellent flexibility. 

Mark 

Message: 18 
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:55:43 -0800 
From: Adam <ack94598 at yahoo.com> 
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] How to automount windows share? 

I am using XP as a fileserver and I would like to have linux mount the 
share automatically when it starts up.  I added a line to my /etc/fstab 
and I can now mount the mount point but it still doesn't mount 
automatically at startup. 

Adam 
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