RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-31 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:26:55PM -, Zhi Cheng Wang wrote: Hi, Christopher Thank you for your very helpful suggestions. For the time being, I will write a script to prompt for password when people try

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-31 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
Hi, CC Thank you for the excellent message. we have a windows centric system and that cannot be changed, for historical, political and management reasons. As linux in this org started from a few isolated desktops, when more and more people use it, we set up a centralized server for auth and

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-31 Thread christopher cuse
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? Hi, CC Thank you for the excellent message. we have

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-31 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
to Linux automatically - possible? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? Hi, CC Thank you

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-31 Thread christopher cuse
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? Hi, CC Thank you very much the excellent solution and I

mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
Hi, Gurus Is it possible to define something in the /etc/fstab file so that a windows share can be mounted to Linux box automatically when sys reboot? (or something in /etc/rc.local without plain text passwd?) the scenario: we have two (ha, more than two) systems in our institute, a few MS

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread winglion
It is very easy to do that! example : at this live to your fstab : mount -t vfat -o codepage=936,iocharset=cp936 /dev/hda5 /mnt/d this line tell linux to mount the hda5 (which is the D: in M$window) The option next to -o tell linux to support chinese charset filename! Actually,I am a

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
thanks for the suggestion, but I am talking about remote files, I am not that new. cheng -Original Message- From: winglion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2003 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? It is very easy

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread christopher cuse
, and username and password accordingly. cheers christopher cuse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Eric Lucas
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? thanks for the suggestion, but I am talking about remote files, I am not that new. cheng

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
] Behalf Of christopher cuse Sent: 28 March 2003 12:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? hi cheng you can mount remote windows shares provided that you have installed samba. once installed, try a line similar to this in your /etc/fstab file //drs1

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:59:00PM +0100, christopher cuse wrote: hi cheng you can mount remote windows shares provided that you have installed samba. once installed, try a line similar to this in your /etc/fstab file //drs1/c$ /mnt/caca smbfs password=mypassword,username=ccuse 0 0

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread christopher cuse
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? Hi, Christopher Thanks. but the plain text passwd is really a concern and also the user's passwd will change periodically on the win sys. it is a quite large org, and the internal security is also an issue. cheng

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread christopher cuse
locally on the windows box (hence my question about what version of windowz) ... cheers christopher cuse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount win shares

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? hi jeff, the smbmount/smbfs has been in samba for some time -- i really don't remember since when. i would tend to concur that ldap is probably the best solution for cheng, although the fact that the windowz user

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread winglion
:-)! I am really sorry about my stupid answer! winglion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-28 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:34:24PM -, Zhi Cheng Wang wrote: Hi Zhi - Please post your emails in proper format - Plain text wrapped to 72 chars wide and no Top Posting (No Top Posting means you place your response Below the content you are replying to.) Hi, Christopher we are using

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:44:48PM +0800, winglion wrote: :-)! I am really sorry about my stupid answer! It wasn't a stupid answer. The question never specified whether the file system was on a local hard drive or not. (or if it did I didn't notice it either.) Your answer was correct and

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
] Behalf Of christopher cuse Sent: 28 March 2003 12:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? hi cheng you can mount remote windows shares provided that you have installed samba. once installed, try a line similar to this in your /etc/fstab file

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:15:41PM +0100, christopher cuse wrote: hi jeff, the smbmount/smbfs has been in samba for some time -- i really don't Yes,, I knew that I just never ran across the notion that you could mount the windows share from within the /etc/fstab file before. I first read the

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
Hi, winglion your contribution is highly appreciated. But, I think smbfs implies remote file system. forgive the simple minded man. cheng -Original Message- From: winglion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2003 14:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:26:55PM -, Zhi Cheng Wang wrote: Hi, Christopher Thank you for your very helpful suggestions. For the time being, I will write a script to prompt for password when people try to access their windows shares. It is simply impossible to ask hundreds of people for

RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread christopher cuse
bottom post! (see below) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? Hi, Christopher Thank you for your

Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible?

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:59:00 +0100, christopher cuse wrote: you can mount remote windows shares provided that you have installed samba. once installed, try a line similar to this in your /etc/fstab file //drs1/c$ /mnt/caca smbfs