On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 12:24 -0500, Arch Willingham wrote: > I have read a bunch of stuff on how to do this but the exact steps are > unclear. Some articles say to use the "mount -t smbfs -o > username=username //winclient/blahblah /mnt/winclient-blahblah", some > say to use "smbmount" and some say not to use cifs (mount -t cifs -o > username=netuser,password=hiddenword //windowsmachine/origin /home/username/destination). Which one is the best? > > > Then there is the while issue of the fstab thing. > > What I want to do is mount a directory on a windows machine at boot > time (I.E> when the Linux machine boots). I want all users to be able > to have the local directory \images be re-routed to a directory on a > windows machine. I see some of the commands but each has the mount > command that shows the password to get to the windows machine. Is > there any way to get the password from a file so that all users of the > Linux machine can't see the password? ---- put it in root's subdirectory. You might however want to check out autofs Craig
