mounting smb shares

Snerkel · 07-26-2004, 04:54 PM

hi, i can connect to my samba share on my server fine using network servers but is there a way that i can mount the share or something so that e.g. i can run music directly from my server instead of having to copy the music to my box then play it ?(the same applys to wanting to play movies directly from my server without copying them to my box). so that my box thinks the share is an actual drive !

Ben

wadly · 07-26-2004, 05:03 PM

Try this from a command line.

mount -t smbfs //hostname/share /mnt/share -o username=user

You must mkdir in /mnt. Something like share if you choose. You can then mount the drive and browse it with nautilus or command line.

Snerkel · 07-26-2004, 05:26 PM

excelent worked perfectly, thank you

Schrambo · 07-27-2004, 03:02 AM

so how would you add that to the fstab?

Would it be...

Code:

 smb:///hostname/share       /mnt/share        smbfs       username=usr,password=passwrd      0 0

or what?

wadly · 07-28-2004, 09:08 AM

I'm not sure how to edit fstab to mount the share. I'm sure someone here will be able to answer this.

Snerkel · 07-28-2004, 06:53 PM

what is fstab exactly ? is it so that everytime i booted my system i would not have to mount the share ?

Schrambo · 07-29-2004, 01:17 AM

The fstab.conf file is a text file which contains the list of partitions and devices that Init uses to know where to find and mount the system devices and drives.

mine currently looks like this

Code:

/dev/hda2        /                reiserfs    defaults            1   1
/dev/hda6        /usr             reiserfs    defaults            1   2
/dev/hda7        /opt             reiserfs    defaults            1   2
/dev/hda8        /home            reiserfs    defaults            1   2
/dev/hda1        /windows         ntfs        ro                  1   0
/dev/sr0         /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     auto,user,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/hdd         /mnt/dvd         iso9660     auto,user,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        auto,user,owner     0   0
/dev/sda         /mnt/usb         vfat        auto,user,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620      0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults            0   0

You can add/edit any items and devices to the fstab. so for example my /dev/sda is my USB thumbdrive, so now when I want to mount it I can either type in the termian

Code:

mount /mnt/usb

or in gnome 2.6 I can just go to the "computer" desktop icon and double click on the "usb" drive and it will automatically mount it for me, reading the mount options straight from the fstab file.