i am trying to get my head around the arguments for smbmnt and smbmount for my RH9 laptop to connect to my winXP share.

without any arguements i can get it to work if i use the same user name on both my RH and XP box, but my main user on RH is a different name. i want to mount to that user.

http://netadmintools.com/html/8smbmount.man.html

read that and tried to get a command that would alow me to add the user name ONLY so i would be prompted for the password still, but could not get it to work.

without the arguments here is how i can mount it if i am loged in as the same user name on my RH box as my XP share.

smbmount //192.168.2.100/Movies /home/ray/tmp

i need/want to be able to add the

username=

arguement to that line, but every time i tried i got a could not find the share error.

some help please. FYI i do not want to send the p/w with the smbmount i do want to be prompted for it, or is this NOT secure, and should i go though the hassel of creating the file that contains the information? id rather not if i dont have to yet. someday, but not atm.

If you use the mount command with type smbfs it accomplishes the same thing. The mount command would look like this:
edit:
I didn't realize you didn't want the password shown on the command line. I'm not sure how you would accomplish this except by making a perl script that prompts the user for password and username (with invisible character captures) and then executes the command from that. I've actually made a perl script that captures characters without them shown on the screen if you want it.

nice, also found what i was missing:

worked perfectly to get me a prompt password and then mounted exactly what i wanted to access.

just for my FYI, what does the -t smbfs do?

-t smbfs makes the mount command use type samba filesystem.

ahh kewl. thanks.

Putting your username and password in /etc/fstab is a rather insecure way to go about it if you have multiple users. Others can access the fstab file and get your password information. SMB has an easy way to make it more secure.

Create a small text file in your home directory called ".credentials" and put the following two lines in it:

username=myname
password=mypassword

Change the file permissions so that it's read-only and inaccessable to other users.

Then, in fstab, replace the username and password arguments with "credentials=/home/myname/.credentials". Now, whenever you call up smbmount, it will fetch your password info from that file instead, and nobody else will be able to see them.

ahh nice.

qusetion for you. when the system prompts for a p/w is that encrypted or plane text going between the 2 systems?

Sorry, that I don't know exactly. I think it depends on the specifics of the systems being networked. I know there's a setting in samba for encrypted passwords, but I'm not sure exactly what that entails. I'm just a simple user myself who recently managed to get his two computers talking to each other.