Re: Questions re samba/cifs stuff in general

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Rick Stevens wrote:
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.

Unforch, I use kde. I was thinking I'd seen something along these lines, but
either my eyesight is going to hell, or some upgrade removed it, which I have
NDI.

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":

I did try that, cuz my old script used it that way, but couldn't seem to get
that chaw of red man positioned right & at my age, virgins are in very short
supply. :-)


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

I wound up using this, but since all are the same domain, I didn't supply
that. Could that be a security risk? That machine is on the same switch as
this one, and all are this side an x86 box running dd-wrt with its firewall
enabled. I think the only real security risk is probably me & PEBKAC. :)

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:

Getting more paranoid as the years go by, that's also sounding like a better
idea. I'll recheck the man page, thanks Rick.

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

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Nahh, that would spoil all the fun! :)


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Cheers, Gene
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