Hi, From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Questions re samba/cifs stuff in general Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:33:44 -0500 > >> I would like to mount it automatically. > >> So, is it possible to put those lines into /etc/fstab as follows ? > >> > >> //server/share /mountpoint cifs user=workgroup/username%password 0 0 > > > >of course, but following up on Rick's point: > >/etc/fstab is readable by all. > > > >I would do this instead: > > > >//server/share /mountpoint cifs > >domain=workgroup,credentials=/root/samba.cred 0 0 > > > >and in the /root/samba.cred file you would have > >username=bob > >password=password > > > >or something like that. > > Humm, yes I see. Also that for more than one share, which may have different > usernames & passwords, one would need a samba.cred per share. Probably best > to rename that to the shares alias in the hosts file, in my case shop.cred I did above 2 tries without samba.cred option. 1) /etc/fstab and 2) rc.local. 1) had no effect. I could not find any win filesystem under the /mnt directry. 2) made Fedora into forever loop at startup, asking password in the character screen. Fedora need rescue CD. So I guess samba.cred option might not be solution. Anyway I will study them. Regards, // M.Iizuka
