> === > > To automatically mount an smb file system at boot, I have added the following > line in my /etc/fstab file. You can specify User and Group ownership by > number. (Replace "500" with the value correct for your system.) Get those > from the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files respectivly. > > //10.7.7.20/Data /mnt/WinXP smbfs uid=500,gid=500,credentials=/etc/smb.txt > > The "credentials" paramenter points to file with the following format: > username = YourUserName > password = YourPassword > > The drawback here is having your UserID and password in plain text file. I at > recommend: > chmod 600 /etc/smb.txt > chown root:root /etc/smb.txt > > So it's at least only readable by root. Everything is working but there's one thing that is still annoying, the Time Out. From a command line it's not a big deal, but in a gui application such as Evolution, it's a pain to try to attach something to your message from one of the mounts to find that it was unmounted because it was idle too long. Or from a file manager, if you want to go look for something, again it's not mounted because of inactivity. How are you dealing with that? Long timeout? Is there a no timeout setting? Thanks, James
