On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Rick Stevens wrote: >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. > Unforch, I use kde. I was thinking I'd seen something along these lines, but either my eyesight is going to hell, or some upgrade removed it, which I have NDI. >> 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": I did try that, cuz my old script used it that way, but couldn't seem to get that chaw of red man positioned right & at my age, virgins are in very short supply. :-) > > mount -t cifs //server/share /mountpoint \ > -o user=username,domain=workgroup,password=password I wound up using this, but since all are the same domain, I didn't supply that. Could that be a security risk? That machine is on the same switch as this one, and all are this side an x86 box running dd-wrt with its firewall enabled. I think the only real security risk is probably me & PEBKAC. :) >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: Getting more paranoid as the years go by, that's also sounding like a better idea. I'll recheck the man page, thanks Rick. > -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! - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nahh, that would spoil all the fun! :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "You boys lookin' for trouble?" "Sure. Whaddya got?" -- Marlon Brando, "The Wild Ones"
