On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:12:15 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I need to auto-mount three CIFS and I'm not sure how to get that > done with passwords and all. Right now, manually I do: > > mount -t cifs //server1/OData /mnt/server1/OData \ > -o user=username,passwd=userpasswd > > How does that get done with fstab? Or am I better off sticking it > in local.rc? Your /etc/fstab may contain a line like (in one line): //server1/OData /mnt/server1/OData cifs user,uid=xxxx,rw,noauto,suid,credentials=/some/path/credentialfile 0 0 And the credentials file contains: username=yyy password=zzz Make this file unreadable by others. You can put this info directly in /etc/fstab, but then they become visible. Another method is to use automount so that the share gets mounted upon access. In this case, you would have an entry in the /etc/auto.xxx file instead of /etc/fstab. The format is slightly different. HTH, Akemi
