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

[John Andersen]

On Monday 30 July 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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

Probably //server-name/anne  but any windows machine should be
able to tell you by browsing the network neighborhood.

homes is another share used to navigate to other users directory
(if permissions allow)

Each user is also shared by samba under that users login name
by virtue of the [users] entry in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file





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John Andersen
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