Mounting Permanently SMB share
 

Hi Frndz

I am Just New to this forum and My Prob is

Am able to mount windows share in Red hat-4 through SMB temporarily, but when I tried permanently through "/etc/fstab" It halts, The syntex I followed in fstab is

# smbmount //200.200.2.143/Images(windows share) /wallpapers(Linux Share) -o username=admin,password=*********

I used the above syntax but after reboot It halts.
Help Me Frndz.

Webby

Hi,

you cannot execute smbmount from within fstab.

Try this:
SERVER_NAME:/SHAREN_NAME_ON_SERVER /LOCAL_MOUNT_POINT cifs username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD 0 0

This should look like:

200.200.2.143:/Images /wallpapers cifs username=admin,password=********* 0 0

Hi,

you cannot execute smbmount from within fstab.

Try this:
This should look like:
in your case.

If you wish to prevent from username and password in fstab you can use:
instead of username and password.

This file contains the following to lines:
username=Argument
password=Argument
This file can be located in a secure place.