Re: Questions re samba/cifs stuff in general


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;

I guess I'm getting lazy in my dotage, but do we have in our current bag of
tricks, a gui program that can display the available cifs/samba shares on the
local network, and then allow the local mounting of such a visible share by
nothing more elegant than having the user enter both the username to log in
as, and the password, hopefully remembering those items till the rapture or
some such silly amount of time?

If you use Gnome, can't you see them via "Places->Network->Windows
Network"? If you double click on one of the servers there, it should
ask you for username, password and domain.

I ask because I just spent over an hour trying to get the syntax right for a
mount.cifs invocation to do just that. I hate manpages without any actual,
known to work examples.

Also, where did smbmount go? Its loss means that even if I could have
recovered my even more complex script from the old FC6/etc/init.d, it would
have failed. I can reinvent that wheel eventually but its been 7 or 8 years
since I had to fool with this & things get rusty, call it CRS, whatever.

smbmount was killed off in favor of mount.cifs. However, it's easier to
use a standard mount command, but specify "-t cifs":

mount -t cifs //server/share /mountpoint \
-o user=username,domain=workgroup,password=password

or you could put all the options in one option:

-o user=workgroup/username%password

Even better, use a credentials file with the username and password in
it so it's not visible in a command history:

-o domain=workgroupname,credentials=/path/to/cred/file

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