permanent mount of win shares

DJOtaku · 01-31-2005, 08:31 PM

I am using the following commands to mount my windows shared folders:

mount -t smbfs -o username=val,password=val //compname/sharedfolder /mnt

this puts a nice icon on my desktop which I can then open up and use like a regular hd.

How do I make this permanent? In other words, how do I modify the command so that this shared folder is always on my desktop? Everytime I logout I lose it.

Thanks,

win32sux · 01-31-2005, 08:35 PM

you just need to add an entry in your /etc/fstab file for the share...

i'm not 100% sure what it would look like, but this search should show you the way:

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr...=Google+Search

this is the second result i got with that search, it seems to explain exactly what you need to do:

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesys...rmanently.html

i hope this helps... good luck...

DJOtaku · 01-31-2005, 08:44 PM

that looks like exactly what I need. Thanks!

DJOtaku · 01-31-2005, 11:52 PM

to anyone else: on the link win32sux suggested, everything works except for the part where it says to use chmod to allow non root users to mount. Any ideas? It keeps telling me that only root can mount it.