[Sheflug] Re: Automounting SMB shares

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

> I've got a line in /etc/fstab which reads
>
> //server/public  /mnt/public  smbfs  auto,user,ro  0 0
>
> but it doesn't automount the directory. Is the above line incorrect
> in some respect?


I'm afraid my feeble little brain cell isn't too good at smbmount.  
But, the above looks like it might not work.  Try 'man smbmount'  
'man samba' as an intro.

I've got a load of books about this but none of them give the correct 
syntax.  In Samba Server Administration by R Smith published by Sybex 
it says in chapter 7....  ...  smbmount  //server/share  /mountpoint  
[-o options] ....

this probably doesn't help but I can't type in twenty pages from a 
book.  One other thing is that smbmount syntax has changed in recent 
versions so you might need to watch out for that one as well.

Thanks


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Richard
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