[kde-linux] Connecting to a samba share at startup

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 30 Jul 2007, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 30 Jul 2007, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> > > On Monday 30 July 2007 14:22:50 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Monday 30 Jul 2007, Werner Joss wrote:
> > > > > > How can I ensure that I connect to my home directory on a server,
> > > > > > when I log
> > > > > > in to a session?
> > > > >
> > > > > Anne,
> > > > > you could create a shellscript in your ~/.kde/env directory, e.g.
> > > > > smbmount.sh,
> > > > > which mounts the samba share via smbmount command.
> > > > > scripts in ~/.kde/env are executed automatically at login.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, of course.  I should have remembered that.   Could you give me
> > > > an example of the syntax for passing username and password?  I've
> > > > little experience of shellscripts, and none for this kind of job. 
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Anne
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Better use mount (it will call smbmount):
> > >
> > > mount -t smbfs -o username=myname password=mypass //service/path
> > > /mount/point
> > >
> > > If you would like to mount the samba share on boot, you could add a
> > > fstab entry for it too:
> > >
> > > //service/path	/mount/point	smbfs	username=myname,password=mypass	0 0
> >
> > Just doing this, but need clarification.  What exactly do you mean
> > by //service/path?
> >
> > Anne
>
> It means //machine-name/share-name   The designation of a share visible on
> the network in windows workgroup notation.

Sorry to harp on, but mistakes in fstab tend to mess things up :-)  So for my 
home directory, would that be //server-name/anne, or //server-name/homes?

Anne
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