[Gllug] Using smbclient to access NT shares

[Vincent AE Scott]

Wulf Forrester-Barker(wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk)@Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:51:59AM +0000:
> Will <will at hellacool.co.uk> asked:
> 
> > I have just started using smbclient to unsuccessfully leech my 
> > colleagues mp3 collections ... They are mostly running NT4 and
> > the shares are not password protected....
> 
> As an <grin>established expert</grin> (having been making minor use of
> Samba since, erm, earlier this week) here's what I'm doing:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //targetpc/targetshare
> /home/wulf/mountdirectory
> 
> (all details obviously obfuscated....)
> 
> This works fine and then allows me to use all my favourite command line
> tools to go in and explore or borrow from the mounted file system.
> 
> If the share is unprotected, I still give a valid username but leave
> the password blank, ie.
> 
> -o username=foo,password= //tar....
> 
> As I recall, I hit a problem when I tried to leave the username off
> when going to one machine - when I went to the share I'd set up on my
> machine (NT4), I'd still required a specified user even though that
> account has no password.
> 
> I also found that the mounts would drop the connection after a certain
> time, so I've written a script which tests that they're still there
> every 20 minutes (via cron) and remounts if necessary (although just
> checking that a specified file exists in each one seems to be enough to
> keep the connection alive).
> 

would it not be possible to use the automounter todo this for you?  it's
been a while since i've used it, so i'm not even sure if it can do this,
dont see why not tho.  At least if it did work, then you could forget
about the cron job, and just use it without thinking about it.

pretty sick tho

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