[Gllug] Auto-Reconnecting Shares

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:48:16PM +0000, Ian Scott wrote:
> >What is a more interesting question is getting an auto-reconnect on boot of
> >the Win2K server -- when I last tried this, it was a problem.
> 
> If you mean mapped drives, the "reconnect on boot" bit is broken in NT
> (and 2K I guess).  The way to do it is to use the commandline "net use"
> command:
> 
> net use d: \\server\share password
> 
> I have a bunch of these in a batch file in my startup directory to connect
> me to the right places when I log on.  It does mean you get a DOS prompt
> flashing up and closing more or less straight away - but hey, what do you
> do if you have an OS that won't background properly.

Sorry, my question was ambiguous, what I meant was:

1) mount SMB file system onto Linux box, NT/... box is the server

2) NT box is rebooted

3) Want to use file system on NT box from Linux without administrative action

It is (3) that is the problem.

-- 
Alain Williams

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