[Gllug] Browsing a SAMBA machine from Windoze

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:29:47PM +0100, Ashley Evans wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2003 12:18 pm, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I've just added a W2K server machine to my network. I've got Samba
> > running on my other machines, and I want the W2K server to be able to
> > see the other machines and access files on them.  Easy enough? Ha ha ...
> >
> > So far I've got the Samba configuration below on one machine. I can
> > now explicitly mount \\linux\rich and \\linux\tmp (I have to manually
> > type a password, which is a pain, but it works).
> 
> mount //box/share /mount/point -t smbfs (Here's the magic :) -o username=user, 
> password=you_guess_it
> 
> You can also put the usr/pass in fstab

Actually the preferred way of doing this in fstab is using
workgroup=blah,credentials=/etc/somefile

Then you can have mode 0600 credentials file.  Man smbmount for more
details (uid,gid may be of use).

Paul

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