A while back, Phil Schaffner wrote about smbmount: > See "man smbmount" and read the stuff on passwords and credentials > files, then construct an appropriate fstab entry if still game. Just > typing "smbmount" in a terminal may give sufficient info. > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaMount may also help. Richard Duran replied: > I'll take a look at this, but it seems that I would have X number of > credential files, which would require that I find out what this X number > of passwords are, and make sure I update the files every time a password > is changed. Am I completely wrong about this? Depends on your setup: is this mounting shares from a Windows domain? If so, I'd create a "linux-share" user in the domain, with a known password, and give that user access to all the shares. Then you just need one credentials file, and you've got one place to change the password. Or use kerberos, but I understand that would be more involved. James. -- E-mail address: james | Space Opera: General term for a subgenre of adventure @westexe.demon.co.uk | SF in which the men are heroic, the women beautiful, | the monsters monstrous, and the spaceships make | whooshing sounds in hard vacuum. -- Eric Raymond
