Fstab

Digital Wokan plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 05 Jul 2002 11:31:38 -0700


Try username=guest/workgroup%password


Jon K wrote:

> //192.168.1.110/backup	/mnt/mp3	smbfs	
> noauto,rw,fmask=777,dmask=777,username=guest,password=password	0	0
> 
> thats what i have and it still not working for me but command:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=guest,password=password //192.168.1.110/backup 
> /mnt/mp3 
> 
> works.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> On Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:41, Digital Wokan wrote:
> 
>>No, since it includes my username on the Samba server.  But I can
>>paraphrase the line from it for you...
>>
>>//machinename/sharename /mnt/mountdir smbfs
>>noauto,rw,fmask=777,dmask=777,username=guest% 0 0
>>
>>Jon K wrote:
>>
>>>I've been trying to do this myself, can you post your fstab for me? 
>>>thanks.
>>>
>>>On Tuesday 02 July 2002 17:39, Digital Wokan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tuesday 02 July 2002 14:29, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In my fstab file, for an smb share what entry do I need to give all
>>>>>users read/write privileges?
>>>>>
>>>>after the smbfs (file system type) entry, make sure the following are
>>>>added to the options field: rw,fmask=777,dmask=777
>>>>
>>>>It took me most of an afternoon of hunting between man pages and google
>>>>to finally get that answer.  This is the kind of setting that needs more
>>>>documentation and examples for sysadmins to study.  (Including the usual
>>>>warnings about potential security hazards from using those settings.)