Hi Roland Try this:
http://www.johnthekiwi.com/John/Tech/Linux/samba_client.html I highly recommend auto-mounting SMB shares via script called in the rc.local file, it's more secure. John the Kiwi On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 14:06, Roland Hill wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm new to Linux and would appreciate some help. > > My problem is that I can't get SMB shares to automount. > > Some background. I have a simple peer to peer home network - 1 RH7.3 box, 2 Win98 >boxes. > > Samba is configured and running. I can manually mount the shares by using either: > > smbmount //server/share /mount/smb1 -o password=XXX > > or > > mount -t smbfs -o password=xxx //server/share /mount/smb1 > > Trying to automount, I have added this line to auto.master: > > /mount file /etc/auto.mount --timeout 180 > > My auto.mount file has: > > smb1 -t smbfs, -o password=XXX ://server/share > > After an autofs restart, then getting the following status: > > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 180 /mount file /etc/auto.mount > > Yet the share has not mounted, with the key of smb1 not being "visible". Could >someone point me in the right direction. I have read the man pages and got some >information via google, but I can't seem to spot the problem. > > Regards, > > Roland Hill > > ##################################################################################### > This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared > by MailMarshal > For more information please visit www.marshalsoftware.com > ##################################################################################### > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
