topic Re: Mounting a Samba drive at startup in Operating System - Linux

Mounting a Samba drive at startup

Chris Swenson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:13:28 GMT

I have 2 linux boxes, one a propriatary system I cannot mess with and the other totally at my mercy. I need to mount a drive on my system from the propriatary system via SMB. From the command line I can just type "mount -t smbfs //freya/banner /root/test -o username=someone%something" with sucess. I would like it to automount on reboot. (I am not allowed to install NFS on one system) Is there a way to do this via the smb.conf. I am not allowed to tinker with the fstab.

Re: Mounting a Samba drive at startup

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:04:03 GMT

You cannot do it with smb.conf, you have to do it with fstab, automount/autofs or PAM.

Re: Mounting a Samba drive at startup

Chris Swenson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:50:14 GMT

I did try this in the fstaband it failed, //freya/banner /root/test smbfs username=username%somepass 0 0

Is there a way to mount the smb from the fstab? Do I have the right syntax?

Re: Mounting a Samba drive at startup

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:06:47 GMT

Please see:

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html