I can successfully connect to Linux and Windows shares using Samba and LinNeighborhood, which is a cool little app that emulates the Windows Network Neighborhood environment. The problem is trying to automate my Linux box to mount the shares automatically on startup. I created a smbmount script for each share and added them to my rc.local file, but I see errors flying by during bootup and it doesn't work. Maybe I'm using the wrong file for this (another rc file?), or the wrong syntax? Please help if you can. Here's the syntax I'm using:

smbmount //<server>/<domain> /mnt<server>/<domain> -o username=<user>%<password>,fmask=644,dmask=755,uid=0,gid=0,ip=<server_IP>,debug=0,workgroup=<group>, port=139

Thanks very much in advance!

Add the mounts you want to /etc/fstab

Regards

Thanks for your advice.
I tried adding the above lines to my fstab, and I assume this is the wrong entry format, as it didn't work. I also tried the following format, which didn't work either:
mount -t smbfs -o user=<user>,passwd=<password> //<server>/<dir> /<local>/<dir>

Both returned boot log errors of "bad format".
What is the proper entry format for auto-mounting Samba shares in /etc/fstab ?
Thank you!

In case anyone's interested, I solved my problem by moving the "mount" command above from fstab to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
It works just fine now.
Thanks.

no, that's a poor solution, not advised

if you read the man page for fstab you'd be able to easily convert your mount command to:

//<server>/<domin> /mnt<server>/<domain> username=<user>,password=<password>,etc,etc,etc

i'm not too sure that all those options you use are really taht valid. the file and directory mask should really be defined on the server side, not locally and so forth.

Thanks Chris. Could you please explain this comment? How do I define these on the "server side"?

well in smb.conf you would set "directory mask = 022" or whatever. these options are listed in the smb.conf man page.. oh that's if you're sharing from linux.. which you're probably not are you? ahh that'll not be possible from windows... DOH!

Actually, I'm doing both... let me explain.
I have a network with one Win2K box, one WinXP box, and two Linux RH 7.3 boxes, one of which is very old and I'm trying to set up as a non-GUI server, and the other is a little newer system w/KDE that I'm working on right now. Since I only have one monitor for the two Lin boxes (and a very bad KVM switch), I'm using SSH from this box to administer the Linux "server". Sharing between the two Linux boxes and the Win2K box is my main concern.
I added the lines above to my /etc/fstab on this box. This easily mounted the Win2K shares on this Linux box, no problem. The problem seems to be getting the right syntax for mounting the other Linux box's shares to this box. I added a similar line for this purpose, but the shell spit back a ton of errors during boot. Is the syntax different when trying to mount another Linux file system?
And if/when I ever figure this out, the next step is trying to print form this Linux box to the printer attached to the Win2K box... I'm at the end of my rope on that one.

Anyboy know a quick way to script/automount a linux share on a Windows 2000 box? I have mapped the Linux share as a W2K drive, but I would like to automate the username/password combo so I don't get a prompt for the password each time I boot.

Did you get your windows 2k mounting issue solved? You can creat a "startup.bat" file the mounts your shares and add it to the user or domain you want it to start up on...

No, I haven't, and that's exactly what I need to do! What is the syntax for adding a network share, user name, password, and Windows "drive" letter to a start-up .BAT file?
Thank you!

You could just use smbuseradd to add a samba user and make the user/passwd the same as you use to log into your win2k machine.

That way it will mount it automatically everytime you logon to your w2k box....