On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:42:42 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Thanks Peter. Looks like I have two options here, either putting > the username and passwd in fstab, or in a credentials file as suggested by > Akemi in a different response. Now for another question: how do I check > whether the mounts are still active and haven't gone stale (prior to > copying files to them)? > > This is all happening on a private network and there's the > possibility of the remote server getting rebooted at times. I need some > failsafe way of checking those mounts. To minimize the case like this, I mount Windows shares only via automount rather than permanent mount through /etc/fstab. Suppose you have a line like: /net /etc/auto.misc in /etc/auto.master (adjust it based on your need), then add this line in /etc/auto.misc (one line): winbox -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm,credentials=/path/to/credentials ://winbox/sharename The specified share will appear in /net/winbox upon access. After some inactivity (automounter's default is 60sec), it will be umountd. Again replace with your own parameters. HTH, Akemi
