We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8
Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted.
Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux This is the job of SaMBa tools. You will need smbmount installed on the system. I found it in /usr/bin/smbmount. You don't call smbclient directly (anymore). Running smbmount without arguments will show you some options and tell you to do this: mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test You don't need to have the password in the command if you are running it from
On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:43, Keith Jacobs wrote: the commandline. It will prompt you. I'm not really sure how to set up the automounting that you are talking about other than to put the password in the /etc/fstab along with the directive to mount the drive. Of course you need to share the drive you want to mount. In linux there is, in general, no such thing as Z:. everything falls under the root directory '/'. You therefore cannot use drive letters. I suspect you might be able to pull this off with dosemu, but it is probably not what you want. in the above example it is assumed you already have /data/test created on your Linux box. Try doing this as root by hand. This is surely going to be the biggest hurdle to get past. After that, you can try and figure out exactly how you fit this to you needs. If you need more help, read the documentation on smbmount: `man smbmount`. If it is still not clear post another message which explains a bit more about your situation. It would be helpful to know if this is for one user, for root, or for many users who will use this as their personal network drive or a shared resource. HTH Steven