Thanks Gary. I was overdoing it (as usual). I put in things like the `-t' in front of `cifs' and the `-o' in front of the options list. All fixed now.
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:13:31 -0500, you wrote: >On 06/01/16 12:25 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> I have two things that need to go into /etc/fstab. One's a network >> share with a username and password. The other is a Windows share which >> is public, no username and password for that one. Both shares will >> bmnounted on the Debian system read-only. I know how to do this with >> mount and the -t switch, and the options for the -o switch to make >> them read-only and provide a username and password. What I don't know >> is what is supposed to go into fstab. I've tried a few different >> syntaxes, but so far none have worked. The networked drive is called >> //DISKSTATION1/BigVol1. The Windows share is //box1/e (drive "E:" on >> the system calling itself `box1'. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > >the lines are almost identical to the mount command. ><share to be mounted> <mount point> <file system> <options> 0 0 > >for options you probably need ro,username=<whatever>,password=<whatever> >for the one that needs the username and password. For the other, ro is >probably sufficient. >