Smbmount for Normal Users

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Craig White on 6/3/2003 23:33 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ but I don't use smbmount...I use mount
\_ 
\_ mount -t smbfs -o username=what_ever_user_name,password=users_password
\_ //lnx1/steve /lnx1

I once solved this in what seemed more graceful to me, but ymmv.
Sadly, the smb config wasn't important to me and when I gracefully
parted ways with the company, I didn't think that 'hey, grab that smb
config' in time.

It ran something along these lines:

automounted (via autofs and a custom program map) the smb share(s)
using something like 'credentials=/home/sinck/.win-creds' in the automount
map line produced.  In theory, that allowed the credentials to be
chmod 400 and not published in the output of 'mount', IIRC.  

This was on a RH 7.1 (.2?) box and except for sawfish, I've never
heard of features getting *dropped* once implemented.

Automounting was important because they kept publishing different
shares as "the place" and I didn't want to remember the magic every
time. 

Automounting distro cds is handy too.  Particularly if you have a
forest of symlinks through the automounting to the packages in
question.  (see cp -s)



David