On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:16 -0800, Alan M. Evans wrote: > My current (non-working) fstab entry appears thus: > > //merope/jdrive /mnt/jdrive cifs > user=xxx,password=xxx,uid=112,gid=101,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777 0 0 The options I have in my fstab look something like: user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/root/credentials.txt The credentials.txt file contains 2 lines, username=xxx and password=yyy One advantage about using the credential option is that this file can be placed somewhere non-root users cannot access and that password is no longer visible in /etc/fstab. Akemi
