I am trying to run this command from the super user mode which basically mounts the "nptel" share on "172.16.0.18" machine at "/test" on my machine.

mount -t smbfs //172.16.0.18/nptel /test

On running this command, it prompts for the password which i think is a part of mount command, password field takes any value(even if does not match).
I want to suppress this prompt, so that I can use it as a part of a script. how can I do that???

If not this way do i have any other way to make it a part of the script, where I don't have to enter password everytime???

If you are mounting this share for reading only, then maybe it has set password for writing. In that case try to add "-ro" to your command to force read only access.

You can supply credentials on the command-line with the user= and password= arguments.

Or, you can create a credentials file containing those two arguments, and reference it with the credentials= argument.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/smbmount

It still prompts for password.

I tried using "-ro", but it is still prompting for password.

When it prompts for password, and if i press enter without entering right password or if enter anything else, it does not complains about the wrong password. It just excepts anything, but it always prompts.

Please post your command string.

You can put your Samba mount in /etc/fstab and point to a credentials file, like this:
The content of /etc/.smbpasswd is like this:
Save /etc/fstab and do a "mount -a"

thanks all for the help...
I found one that works for me..

mount -t cifs //172.16.0.18/linux /test -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

Yes, you can do that from the command line, but your mount won't be re-mounted at boot time. It would have to be entered in your fstab file to survive reboots.