Hi all,

I have placed two smbmount commands in a script so i can quickly mount two networked windows shares, so yes i have created the /mnt points. However, the script doesnt seem to run properly.

when i run the two commands individually in a terminal they work fine. I realise that i must be root to smbmount, but even when i execute the script in a term as su, still doesnt work.

script is pasted below.
thanks
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#!/bin/bash

smbmount //aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/windocs /mnt/windocs -o username=XXXX,password=YYYY
smbmount //aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/Scratch /mnt/scratch -o username=XXXX,password=YYYY

Error-messages, any output at all?

Best of copy & paste the output of your terminal
session (remove critical info again).


Cheers,
Tink

What does your shell output when you run the script? "still doesn't work" isn't much to go on.

right you are. sorry folks, but to be honest there is no output. the only evidence i have that its not running the command properly is that when i type:

ls /mnt/windocs (and likewise for other share)

i get nothing. no files listed. after running each command individually, i get a full listing.

Mate!

Just give us the transcript of the session :}


Cheers,
Tink

Ok, let's assume there are really no errors...

Run your script and post the output of mount

hi all,

so i have been playing around with it some more and i am not sure what i did but i believe it now works

i had an su command in the script ahead of the smbmount commands. so after running that in the terminal i was of course still as 'root'. running mount at that point showed no network shares mounted. when i exited back to my user account, and then ran mount again it showed the shares.


it seems very odd but as i said earlier, there was never any errors so i guess it was always working, just i wasnt able to see them immediately.

thanks for your time though. i appreciate your efforts