Re: Mounting question

I've successfully used:

- ensure it exists or create a mount point on /mnt (say /mnt/remote_share)

- [as root or sudo] mount -t cifs //remote_server/shared_dir
/mnt/remote_share -o
user=your_windows_creds_on_machine_or_domain,domain=machine_or_domain_name

The mount line is one continuous line - no line breaks!

Yes, you actually do -o user=blah,domain=blah to authenticate yourself to
the domain/machine to mount.

Works every time for me.

Now what I'd like to know is if there a faster way to remotely mount a
Windows/SMB share without having to be sudo/root.

I've found trying to mount as -t smbfs caused failures and problems. Once
I replaced -t smbfs with -t cifs, the problems went away.

Scott

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

Darren Mansell wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:24 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
I am trying to do some work with some remote Windows shares and while I
can easily mount the volume using places->connect to server, it only
mounts it under the Ubuntu desktop and some GNOME-aware applications.
If I'm trying to do work with scp or cp from a mount point, the path
doesn't exist.

What is the best/easiest way to have, for example, \\windowsserver\share
mounted to \mnt\windows so I can use command line file utilities?

Put it in /etc/fstab ie

//server/share /media/windows smb
uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,credentials=/home/user/.smbpw 0 0

Dont forget to apt-get smbfs

some windows servers require you to use cifs instead of smb for the
filesystem.

Make ~/.smbpw and put

username=yourusername
password=yourpassword

Is there a way to do this on the fly, as in, "the file is need is on
XXXX, so I need to mount that share..." instead of putting into the
fstab (which if I am reading it right would mount it at boot time, but
please correct me if I'm wrong!)?

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