Samba Config

[Matt Alexander]

Hi Tom,
I'm going from memory here, but I believe the fstab line would be
something like this:

//windowsbox/windowsshare   /yourmntpoint   smbfs    defaults    0 0

So here's how your fstab works:  Field 1 is the device or remote
filesystem, field 2 is where you want the device or remote filesystem
mounted, field 3 is the filesystem type, field four is any options,
and fields 5 and 6 are for dump and fsck.  If your Windows share allows
anonymous access, then this should work for you.  If, however, you have to
login to access your shares, then you'll probably have to put your
username/password in the options field.
~M


On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Tom Achtenberg wrote:

> OK now after I sent this long diatribe I go back for one more try and got
> the mount into the Linux server to work from fstab!!  Now all I need is the
> mount of the NT shares from fstab.  I'm not sure what to do there or even
> where to begin.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Achtenberg" <tom@ybnormal.org>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Samba Config
>
>
> OK, I got SWAT up now I'm really confused as to what to do with it.
> Actually I'm very confused as to what to do with getting my Linux
> workstation to be an active part of my network.  I'm not sure what, where or
> even if I need Samba running or for what.  Should it run on the Linux
> server?  The Linux workstation?  The NT server? Nowhere?  None of the books
> I've found are very helpful with this.
>
> As a review, here is my situation.  I have a RH7.2 workstation, a e-smith
> gateway/server which is running RH7.1 and an NT4.0 server that has my
> printers, scanner and zip drive on.  I can print from the Linux workstation
> with no problem.  I have not tried the scanner or zip yet.  Entering the
> following command from the console I can mount the I-bay on my
> gateway/server to the workstation and access the files in it.
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=tom,password=foobar //chow/chow /home/chow
>
> I have not been able to find a version of this command to put in etc/fstab
> that works to mount it at boot.  I always get smb connection fail errors.
>
> I have tried similar commands with smbfs, vfat and nfs to mount a share on
> the NT server with various error messages.  mount -t vfat -o
> username=tom,password=foobar /mutt:/d /home/mutt   as an example.  I usually
> get an error that says "special device /mutt does not exist"
>
> I'm really stumped as to where to go with mounting these two things in
> fstab.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
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