permanent network mount?

i mount a network drive //gtp/Music
to the desktop folder /root/.gnome-desktop/Music
with the smbmount command

how can i mount this drive permanently even after reboots?

i tired editing my /etc/fstab with gedit but it didnt work.

thanks for your help!

did you edit fstab correctly?

--after editing, can you issue 'mount <mount point>' and it works?

--after reboot, has fstab contents changed?

//gtp/Music /root/.gnome-desktop/Music smbfs username=<name>,password=<pass>,netdev,soft ,_intr1 0


i put this in, rebooted. but i didnt remount... once i remount will it stay so the next reboot it will be in the ~/.gnome-desktop/Music folder?

is that right? should i try it again?

well, a couple things here -- i'm not familiar with all those options, but number one no-no is putting the logon credientals in the fstab file -- that's bad practice, because all users can see the contents.

number 2: do you use root as your regular user? -- this is bad, you should create an un-privledged account for day-to-day tasks.

here's an example for you, i have a similar setup, and my fstab contains the line:

//patsy/psc    /home/psc/smb    smbfs    uid=1000,gid=100,credentials=/root/patsy  0  0

where:
uid 1000 = user 'psc'
gid 100 = group 'users'

now the file /root/patsy contains:

username = psc
password = mypass

and has permissions 400 for root:root

fyi:

also, i have an entry for patsy (which has a static IP) in my /etc/hosts file, otherwise she should be referenced by IP, but that doesn't seem to be your problem