I've found how to smbmount a windows drive but it unmounts every time I log out.

How do I set it up to remount if unmounted?

This is the command I use (now stored as a script file so I don't have to keep looking it up.)

smbmount //192.168.0.22/grande\ \(G\) /home/justin/Desktop/grande

Is there a gui that will allow this mount to be permanent?

Cheers, J

put it in your /etc/samba/smb.conf file.

didn't work for me, is there another solution?

By put it in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file you mean add the line
smbmount //192.168.0.22/grande\ \(G\) /home/justin/Desktop/grande to it somewhere?

The Windows share should not be unmounting when you log out. It is more likely unmounting when you shutdown. Mounting a Windows share to the Linux filesystem does not involve smb.conf. That is used for configuring samba to establish shares on Linux.

It sounds like what you want to do is mount your Windows share onto the Linux filesystem when you boot. This is done through /etc/fstab. You set up the entry to use a type of smbfs. I would recommend using the credentials option and placing your windows username and password in a file only accessible by root. The man page for smbmount has some details on how to setup the file.

Entry in /etc/fstab would look something like:
You'll probably want to set up the uid and gid to the same defaults of user justin.

There are two things I would change if this were my setup. First would be to change the IP address to the name of your windows server. For small networks you can use the /etc/hosts file for that (see man hosts). The other thing is the name of your share. grande\ \(G\) is not very friendly. Why not just use grande and be done with it?

If your windows box is not always up, you'll have to approach this a little differently. Perhaps by using autofs. I would have to read up on autofs to tell you how to set it up that way.

Bill

Thanks wmakowski, that looks like the trick. Yes the //192.168.0.22/grande\ \(G\) is causing problems.
There are no user names or passwords so I take it a credential of guest would fix this. As soon as I have put the entry into fstab, written and quit, I get a dialog prompting me with what action I'd like to take. opening it at the moment results in /media/grande\ as the mount point so definitely need to change the shared folder name or somehow make an alias I can use as there are a bunch of other people already using this share name. Not sure that there is any other solution... to get around the problematic share name.

Windows will allow you to create multiple share names for the same resource. Perhaps you can get another entry made on the windows server. What does your entry in /etc/fstab look like? It doesn't sound right to me that the mount point becomes /media/grande\. I haven't tried this yet, but since it is a guest type share you could probably use username=guest rather than credentials=/etc/grande

Bill