fstab and samba?

shanenin · 12-26-2004, 08:56 PM

I am not having any luck mounting my samba share by using my fstab file
below is what I have in my fstab

Code:

//marsala/My\ Documents  /home/shane/samba  smbfs   username=root,password=<password>,users,noauto    0 0

when I type mount test , I get this output

Code:

shane@mainbox shane $ mount samba
[mntent]: line 18 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /home/shane/samba in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

/home/shane/samba is in my fstab, according to the error lmessage, it is not in there.

I am able to mount my share manually using this command

Code:

mount -t smbfs //marsala/My\ Documents /home/shane/samba

twsnnva · 12-27-2004, 04:36 PM

You can't mount samba shares via fstab when the exported name contains spaces. The best way to fix this would be to share the folder with an underscore in place of the space. I guess, alternatively, you could create a startup script and mount the share with it. I'm not sure about gentoo but for debian I would create a script(chmod +x) called "S99mountshare", containing:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount -t smbfs //marsala/My\ Documents /home/shane/samba -o username="user",password="pass"

and place it in the /etc/rcS.d/ directory.

Ateo · 12-27-2004, 04:52 PM

I've never been able to mount an fstab defined mountpoint that contains a space. Best bet, use an underscore.