Having a tough time figuring out the fstab entry that will auto mount
my Win2K shares.

I can always use:

smbmount //win2K/C /mnt/share
Password: [ENTER] (null passwords in smb.conf)

and the share is mounted.

However I would like to automate this and have tried all of the following
to no avail:

//win2K/C /mnt/share smbfs username=administrator,password=default,rw,uid=root,gid=root 0 0

//win2K/C /mnt/share smbfs defaults,rw,noauto,user=xxxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxx 0 0

//win2K/C /mnt/share smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/win2K 0 0

and a few minor variations on the above.

Does anyone know the proper string for my Slackware 9.0 system?

looks fine to me. what actaully happens with that middle entry when you just try "mount /mnt/share" ?

Not sure what you mean by 'just try "mount /mnt/share" ?'; I'll assume you mean

mount -t smbfs //win2kbox/C /mnt/share

which works fine also and seems to be all that is required.

Each of the commands (smbmount or mount) seem to work as long as it
is executed from the command line in a console.

It just doesn't want to work in fstab.

This may not be the proper forum for this note, but it bears on a solution to
the smbmount problem.

I thought that I would write a script to mount the windows share on
startup without user intervention. Unfortunately, using the familiar command:

smbmount //win2K/C /mnt/share

requires user intervention when the mount command requests a password, even
though the response only requires one to press [ENTER].

A way to automate this sequence would seem to beg the use of 'expect'. An expect
script like the following should work:

#! /usr/bin/expect -f
spawn smbmount //amdk7/C /mnt/share
expect "Password:"
send "\r"

This script seems to work well up until the last statement; the one supposedly
sending the [ENTER] character. On a Linux system the ENTER key is supposed to represent
a linefeed (\n), but expect tutorials say the \r is required at the end of a send statement.

However, nothing I have tried [send "\r", "\n", "\0x1c\0x9c"(showkey -s)] has worked.

Anyone have a suggestion?

After a little more reading and playing around, a working 'expect' script:

#! /usr/bin/expect -f
spawn smbmount //amdk7/C /mnt/share
expect "Password:"
exec sleep 1
send "\r"
expect eof

I thought a reference to this in rc.local should work well, but I get an access
denied error. Could be related to the fact that the mount occurs prior to
login (as root). There must be someway around this.

But once logged in, it works well.

Aliasing a short name to the location of the file (such /etc/samba/mntshrs) is a
quick way to mount the share(s).