Mounting SMB shares in /etc/fstab

[Gavin Henry]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 1:16 am, Bryan Anderson wrote:
> I'm slowly getting there.....many things have been worked through and
> solutions found, but I am having some problems still with the
> networking. I have created a link to (url) smb://10.0.0.4 which is the
> WinXP box and can browse my shares, copy files over, etc.
>
> I have created a line in /etc/fstab to automount the share:
>
> //10.0.0.4/data_shared  /mnt/data_shared  smbfs
> username=bryan,password=jasper,umask=000  0 0
>

As fstab is readable be everyone, I would suggest this:

//discovery/Users$	/home/ghenry/ghenry	smbfs	credentials=/home/
ghenry/.smbpasswd,uid=1000,gid=1000	0	0

Instead of plain readable password for everyone to see.



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Regards,

Gavin Henry

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