Cifsmount in startup of the machine

[Alexandre Sobral]

As I make to place in my server HP-UX un conection with cifsmount in startup of the server.

cifsmount //NT server/resource /

[Sundar_7]

I never had to use this. But you can try somethign like this

# vi /etc/rc.config.d/cifsclient
RUN_CIFSCLIENt=1
#

# vi /etc/fstab
..
..
NTServer:/resource /mountpoint -U login 0 2
#

# mount -aF cifs

as I said, I havent tested this and not sure if this is going to work.

[Alzhy · Accepted solution]

Aelx,

FOr UNIX mounts from NT's to be persistent accross reboots, you must the "-s" option in cifsmount so it saves mount and connect/password information in a database:

mroot@sol # cifsmount -?

usage: cifsmount /// []
cifsmount -h prints short help
cifsmount -v prints version information
valid options are:
-r Mount as read-only filesystem
-c Set netbios name of client
-p Connect at this tcp port
-u Enable unencrypted passwords
-s Save mount and password in database (please do not
use unless you understand the security implications)
-E Force data encryption (only when compiled with SSL)
-C Require server certificate (only when compiled with SSL)
-W Do without server certificate (only when compiled with SSL)
-f Force mount. Mount the server even if it does not respond.
-U Username sent to server
-P Password given in commandline (implies -N)
-S Read password from standard input (implies -N)
-N Don't prompt for a password
-I Use this address or hostname for tcp connection

Then you use "cifslist -M" to confirm what's in the CIFS Client DB:

root@sol # cifslist

usage: cifslist -A lists servers with shares and mountpoints
cifslist -S lists connected servers
cifslist -U lists users in database
cifslist -M lists mounts in database
cifslist -s lists shares open at server
cifslist -u lists users logged in at server
cifslist -m lists mountpoints for share
cifslist -h prints short help
cifslist -v prints version information

You need not bother with /etc/fstab.

[Sundar_7]

Looks like you have to use cifslogin command and authenticate yourself.

Look at man page of cifslogin and cifsmount.

[Alzhy]

no need for cifslogin.

You will only need cifsmount command. Look at the syntax...

[Sundar_7]

Alexandre, Ignore the my posts on the /etc/fstab. I will see if I can come up with something that is goign to work :-)