On Wednesday 19 November 2003 1:16 am, Bryan Anderson wrote: > I'm slowly getting there.....many things have been worked through and > solutions found, but I am having some problems still with the > networking. I have created a link to (url) smb://10.0.0.4 which is the > WinXP box and can browse my shares, copy files over, etc. > > I have created a line in /etc/fstab to automount the share: > > //10.0.0.4/data_shared /mnt/data_shared smbfs > username=bryan,password=jasper,umask=000 0 0 > As fstab is readable be everyone, I would suggest this: //discovery/Users$ /home/ghenry/ghenry smbfs credentials=/home/ ghenry/.smbpasswd,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 Instead of plain readable password for everyone to see. -- Regards, Gavin Henry http://www.magicfx.co.uk http://www.suretecsystems.com