Hi All,

Using OpenSuse 10.2 in a Windows and Active Directory environment, I want to mount a couple of Windows shares as painlessly as possible. I've read lots of advice about what should be in fstab, all the relevant man pages, lots of postings, but everything I've tried so far won't work.

Here's the situation ...

At the command prompt as root, I issue the command

mount -t cifs -o user=domain\userid,pass=password //10.208.13.5/groups$ /home/zmsc1/i

That works perfectly! The share "groups$" is mounted in my home directory in the folder "i" (because the Windows users around here commonly call this share the "i" drive).

I know about credentials files, but I want to sort out the basics first.

I put that command in a script, but couldn't get it to work in that form, so I've modified the script to read

su -c "mount -t cifs -o \"user=domain\\userid,pass=password\" \"//10.208.13.5/groups\" \"home/zmsc1/i\""

Not clear to me why the escapes and quotes are needed, but they are and the script works if I call it in a terminal then when prompted provide the root password.

So my question is, how can I get that script to run on boot? I tried putting it in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d but it didn't do anything. I took out the su -c bit as there wouldn't be any way to put the root password in at boot. And I made root owner of the script. And yes, I did set the file as executable.

Anyone can see where I've gone wrong?

TIA,
Stuart

ok well files in rc5.d are *links* to a *service* script. service scripts respond to "start" "stop" etc.. not just a generic command. secondly you shouldn't be running it like this anyway. just add a line to your fstab file and it will naturally mount it automatically...

//server/share /home/zmsc1/i cifs auto,username=xxx,password=yyy 0 0

Try this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=581128

Thanks Chris,

I'd tried before in fstab, using username=domain\\name. At the command line, you need the double backslash and I assumed it's the same in fstab. But not so! So for the benefit of others viewing this thread, if you want to mount a share on a domain from fstab, you need

//server/share$ /mount/point cifs auto,user=domain\user,password=whatever 0 0

But see elsewhere on use of a credentials file rather than leaving your domain password in an easy-to-find place.

Stuart