Samba Laziness

[Digital Wokan]

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 01:05, Trent Shipley wrote:
> 0)  Samba now comes up automatically.
>
> 1) I can browse from SuSE box to Win2K laptop after mounting the MS
> machine.
>
> 2) Win2K finds SuSE and basic shares.
>
> 3) Win2K cannot browse any shares.  It's username/Password combo doesn't
> work. (I suspect there are a toggle or two that I'm missing.  Maybe a
> host-allow file or something too.)
>
> 4) How to I add lines to automount Windows filesystems on the SuSE box. 
> (And I mean automount [and dismount] since the remote machines may or may
> not be on the network.)

Number 4 is easy if your Windows system has a guest account with access to the 
directories you need.  Number 4 is still easy even if you don't, but involves 
coding an account's password into /etc/fstab.
There might be a workaround if one of your init scripts does the mount and 
isn't readable by users.  Not a standard way of mounting filesystems, so 
anyone else who needs to admin the system would need to be informed of the 
method.