[Gllug] Auto-Reconnecting Shares (further clarification)

[Xander D Harkness]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 17:10, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the advice everyone ... one slight problem, namely that it
> baffles the shyte outta me :-)
> 
> I've tried looking in the SuSE help pages (search doesn't seem to do
> anything) and I've tried typing "man fstab" at a terminal session and that
> is just bewildering. I appreciate that I'm a techie but there was a time (I
> swear it's true) when technical documents made some sort of sense (hell I
> even tried "man man" to figure out how to get out of man and discovered by
> pure accident that hitting the 'Q' key does this).
> 
> OK ... can someone explain (from basics) how you do this fstab thing ... I
> have a share on a Win2K server that I can mount using the command line:
> 
> smbmount //darla-2000/transfer$ /mnt/trans ?o username=undead, password
> =<password>
> 
> The program then connects.
> 
> How does the above translate into a line in fstab?
#Demo /etc/fstab file

/dev/hda8        /              ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda1       /boot           ext3    defaults        1 2
//darla-2000/transfer /mnt/trans smb username=undead,password=<password>

Cheers
Xander

> 
> Also, whilst we're at it, what kind of line would I need to adds to connect
> a printer? Darla-2000 has two printers shared as "eplaser" & "epcolour".
> 
> Any help, as always, gratefully received :-)
> 
> James
> 
> James C. Rocks,
> Technical Development Consultant
> Archway House,
> Canary Wharf.
> EQUANT
> E-Mail:    james.rocks at equant.com (work)
> Phone:   07771-767405 (mobile), 0207-5226856 (work)
> 
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