How can I mount a network share on my W2k server so I will mount at startup?

I guess you could put it in the startup scripts.

the bad thing is your password is in there so protect the file with the script in it, don't use the same password anywhere else

I use this

mount -t smbfs //win2k/pub /lan/win2k -o username=david,password=foobar

or you could use smbmount


[david@ccxxxxxx-x david]$ mount
/dev/md1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
automount(pid815) on /misc type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=815,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
//winme/pub on /lan/winme type smbfs (0)
//win98/pub on /lan/win98 type smbfs (0)
//win2k/pub on /lan/win2k type smbfs (0)

you rteally should use an /etc/fstab entry, as that's what it's there for, the equivalent line for that mount command would be:

//win2k/pub /lan/win2k smbfs username=david,password=pass

well, execpt the password,cos i hate all that foo crap.

I don't use fstab this way.

It is ok to put it in there with the noauto option.

then it would serve as a shortcut to mounting //whatever/share to a given place without typing the whole thing, sort of like your cdrom, you can just type mount /dev/cdrom and it will mount to the designated place.

The problem is if your system boots and those shared drives are not there to mount it will be trouble.

I just ssh into my machine and do the mount.