On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I guess I'm getting lazy in my dotage, but do we have in our current bag of > tricks, a gui program that can display the available cifs/samba shares on the > local network, and then allow the local mounting of such a visible share by > nothing more elegant than having the user enter both the username to log in > as, and the password, hopefully remembering those items till the rapture or > some such silly amount of time? If you use Gnome, can't you see them via "Places->Network->Windows Network"? If you double click on one of the servers there, it should ask you for username, password and domain. > I ask because I just spent over an hour trying to get the syntax right for a > mount.cifs invocation to do just that. I hate manpages without any actual, > known to work examples. > > Also, where did smbmount go? Its loss means that even if I could have > recovered my even more complex script from the old FC6/etc/init.d, it would > have failed. I can reinvent that wheel eventually but its been 7 or 8 years > since I had to fool with this & things get rusty, call it CRS, whatever. smbmount was killed off in favor of mount.cifs. However, it's easier to use a standard mount command, but specify "-t cifs": mount -t cifs //server/share /mountpoint \ -o user=username,domain=workgroup,password=password or you could put all the options in one option: -o user=workgroup/username%password Even better, use a credentials file with the username and password in it so it's not visible in a command history: -o domain=workgroupname,credentials=/path/to/cred/file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - If at first you don't succeed, quit. No sense being a damned fool! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
