Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (292 mails)

[Malcolm Herbert <mherbert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 04 March 2001 19:23, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2001  6:33 pm, Matt Johnson wrote:
> > smbmount //server/dir /mountpoint password
> >
> > also
> >
> > smbmount //server/dir /mountpoint -U teacher password
>
> According to the smbmount I've got (2.0.7):
>
> smbmount //server/dir /mountpoint -o username=teacher,password=topsecret
>
> Which version are you running?
>
> If you're using one with the -U for username, does the password need a -P
> in front of it?
>

a quick test (sad sunday mode) shows that 

smbmount //server/dir /mnt -o username=user, password=pass

works although i get a warning (probably from my smb.conf)

also note that it does advise on my version (2.0.7) to use

mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass /server/dir /mnt instead

Malc


> Dan

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