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Mount Network share on boot

Hi Everyone,

I'm running Fedora 11 and need to have a cifs share mount on boot. What do I need to do?

I can mount the drive through command line by typing

Code:

mount.cifs //192.168.1.249/xserve/shared /home/sasktel/mnt -o username="guest"

What do I need to edit to allow this to mount on boot?

I've used Fedora for a little while now but my workplace has asked that I develop a BitTorrent tracker service to demonstrate how it works to a few departments in our company and I'll be diving into a bit more in depth things. If ya got any questions for me just ask!

-Capn

Quote:

modify "vim /root/.smbcredentials"

Add the following lines (change winusername and winpassword to the correct username and password for the samba/windows server you want to connect to):

Quote:

username=winusername
password=winpassword

SAVE THE FILES:

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chmod 700 /root/.smbcredentials

modify the "vim /etc/fstab" to include your share

insert share name and server where appropriate

Code:

//192.168.1.249/xserve/share /home/sasktel/mnt cifs  credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 1

I've added what you posted above but get a blank /home/sasktel/mnt folder. Here's my /etc/fstab

Code:

#

# /etc/fstab

# Created by anaconda on Mon Oct  5 15:30:28 2009

#

# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'

# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info

#

UUID=6e50cf4c-132e-4b66-bd33-849a04fe902a        /boot                  ext3    defaults                                1 2

/dev/mapper/vg_tracker-lv_root                        /                      ext4    defaults                                1 1

/dev/mapper/vg_tracker-lv_swap                        swap                    swap    defaults                                0 0

tmpfs                                          /dev/shm                tmpfs  defaults                                0 0

devpts                                          /dev/pts                devpts  defaults                                0 0

sysfs                                          /sys                    sysfs  defaults                                0 0

proc                                            /proc                  proc    defaults                                0 0

//192.168.1.249/xserve/share                        /home/sasktel/mnt        cifs          credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 1

And the .smbcredentials file:

Code:

username="guest"

password=""

This is where I assume I've messed up. Should I remove the quotes? If so, what do I need to replace password with to imply that no password is set?

try this instead:

modify /etc/fstab to use this instead to see if this works better

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//192.168.1.249/xserve/share /home/sasktel/mnt cifs username=guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 1