On Thursday 31 January 2008, Stuart Sears wrote: >Mitsuho Iizuka wrote: >[Rick's samba advice] > >> I would like to mount it automatically. >> So, is it possible to put those lines into /etc/fstab as follows ? >> >> //server/share /mountpoint cifs user=workgroup/username%password 0 0 > >of course, but following up on Rick's point: >/etc/fstab is readable by all. > >I would do this instead: > >//server/share /mountpoint cifs >domain=workgroup,credentials=/root/samba.cred 0 0 > >and in the /root/samba.cred file you would have >username=bob >password=password > >or something like that. Humm, yes I see. Also that for more than one share, which may have different usernames & passwords, one would need a samba.cred per share. Probably best to rename that to the shares alias in the hosts file, in my case shop.cred >This file does not have to be in /root, but it should be readable only >by root. > >regards > >Stuart Thanks Stewart, usefull info. >-- >Stuart Sears RHCA etc. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Welcome to the Zoo! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
