Auto mount Samba Share

mellis95 · #1 7th June 2005, 01:32 AM

What is the best way to automatically mount a Samba share upon successfull login? I haven't done any scripting, so if that is the answer, which I believe it might be, please explain what I will need to do. The shares I want to mount are on a CentOS server and I want to mount them on my laptop, which has FC3.

Thanks for the help

strikeforce · #2 7th June 2005, 02:01 AM

In your /etc/fstab you can 'automagically' set it up. If you have share level set to user you can create your own username and password in a file that can be accessed on boot.

This will enable you to mount them all on startup.

mellis95 · #3 7th June 2005, 02:10 PM

No luck editing fstab. Maybe I am doing it wrong? I am adding the following at the end of the fstab file:

smbmount //ipaddress/sharename /mnt/mountpoint

This works when run in a terminal. What is the syntax for my fstab file? Thanks for helping me out.

lnmn · #4 8th June 2005, 01:37 AM

try this

# vi /etc/fstab

add the following line with your values :
//localhost/share /mountpoint smbfs auto,username=usrname,password=passwd 0 0

after you save and close mount it with :
# mount /mountpoint

It just worked for me

lnmn

strikeforce · #5 8th June 2005, 01:48 AM

yeah thats how you do it. Sorry only just got to work now to check the responses. I'm in Australia so the time differential is about 12 hours.

Anyways that should work for you. IF not please post what the error is in the /var/logs

ugra · #6 10th June 2005, 11:38 AM

I am trying to automount remote windows diretcories onto my FC3 installation using samba ..

Here is what I did ..

[1] Created a mount directory
/root/wincli

[2] Edited /ets/fstab to add the following line ...
//blrk99dd/share_ringo /root/wincli smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpassword,workgroup=IN002,uid=500,gid=500,dmask =777,fmask=777,umask=000,ro 0 0

where credentials file has the username, password ..

[3] and run the follwing command as root ..
mount /root/wincli

and when I do a ls -l in the directory /root i get the following properties for the folder /root/wincli .. the mount directory ..
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? wincli
which previously used to be
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 11:47 wincli

Can someone please help .. and is this a FC3 specific problem due to some security enhancements that it has implemented ?

Many thanks,
Ugra

lnmn · #7 10th June 2005, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ugra

//blrk99dd/share_ringo /root/wincli smbfs credentials=/root/.smbpassword,workgroup=IN002,uid=500,gid=500,dmask =777,fmask=777,umask=000,ro 0 0

I believe the .smbpasswd file is for accessing a share on your FC3 box from a different box whether it be Linux or windows. You shouldnt need the 'workgroup' option unless of course you are accessing different workgroup other than the one specified in your /etc/samba/smb.conf. Ther uid gids...... are specified by the share your are accessing. If your looking for permersions on the folder /root/wincli change the permissions on that paticluar folder. the best thing to do is enter the line exactly in my above post to see if it works then try your version

gavinw6662 · #8 11th June 2005, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lnmn

try this

# vi /etc/fstab

add the following line with your values :
//localhost/share /mountpoint smbfs auto,username=usrname,password=passwd 0 0

after you save and close mount it with :
# mount /mountpoint

It just worked for me

lnmn

I just did that, and it works like a charm!!

ugra · #9 15th June 2005, 05:17 AM

Hello ,
I tried this .. on my FC3 box ..

trying to mount a windows share on MyWindowsMachines onto my FC3 mountpoint
//MyWindowsMachineShare /mountpoint smbfs auto,username=usrname,password=passwd 0 0

but it isnt working I get the permissions on the mounted directory as ..
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? wincli
Have used the usrname and password for the account in MyWindowsMachine
It mounts allright but then beacuse of the unknown permissions its unusable ..
cannot change the permissions on this directory also ..

those who got the above working is yours an FC3 box too ??

Thanks for helping out ..
Ugra !

strikeforce · #10 15th June 2005, 05:27 AM

unmount it and make sure the permissions are correct before you mount it. Also can you please show the full statement I think it might be in the wording of it.

e.g.

Quote:

//machinename/share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs auto,username='actualusername',password='actualpas sword' 0 0

ugra · #11 16th June 2005, 05:03 AM

Hello People,
Thanks for all the help .. am still working on it .. not quite got it yet .. wonder why its such a problem

Ok what I do it create a directory .. /mnt/winclient
[root@LINBOX ~]# mkdir /mnt/winclient
[root@LINBOX ~]# ls -l /mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 09:22 winclient
[root@LINBOX ~]# vi /etc/fstab
//WINBOX/share /mnt/winclient smbfs credentials=/home/linusername/.smbpassword,workgroup=IN002,uid=linusername,gid=l inusername,dmask=777,fmask=777,umask=000,rw
0 0 (even if i change the uid and gid to 'root' - same problem, even without the workgroup, dmask, umask)
[root@BLRKBADD ~]# mount /mnt/winclient/
[root@BLRKBADD ~]# ls -l /mnt/
total 40
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? winclient
drwxr-xr-x 18 linusername linusername 8192 Jan 1 1970 wind
[root@BLRKBADD ~]

hmm .. then I found that you can mount SMB shares using konqueror GUI so I went ahead and ran koquerer
and I get the same result even there after mounting the share that I wanted ..

[root@BLRKBADD ~]# ls -l /root/smb_network/132.186.193.148/
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? share_r
[root@BLRKBADD ~]#

Any pointers in this direction would be great help ! has anyone mounted remote windows shares using FC3 and got it working ?

Many thanks,
Ugra

gavinw6662 · #12 16th June 2005, 05:48 AM

//machinename/share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs auto,username='actualusername',password='actualpas sword' 0 0

I use this method, instead of smbfs i use cifs. When i log in, it is all set up for me. Love it!!

strikeforce · #13 16th June 2005, 05:49 AM

It looks like a bad mount but for some reason I've never had it I'm not sure where to go at the moment.

Can you try auto instead of smbfs and then on top of that can you also try an ip instead of a windbox name. I've always found the ip works but the name doesn't thats just my experience.

What happens when you try the following command.

smbclient -L //WINBOX

It should give you a list of possible shares.

*Edit

Try the suggestion above it might have changed to cifs?

lnmn · #14 16th June 2005, 12:15 PM

Are you running SP2 on the winbox? If so check your firewall.
Are you in the same Workgroup? Subnet?

ugra · #15 17th June 2005, 03:43 AM

Hi All,

This just worked fine for me .. Thanks much Gavin
using cifs instead of smbfs ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by gavinw6662

//machinename/share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs auto,username='actualusername',password='actualpas sword' 0 0

I use this method, instead of smbfs i use cifs. When i log in, it is all set up for me. Love it!!

using smbfs causes problems check out ..

1) [Samba] [PATCH] smbfs: smbfs do not honor uid, gid, file_mode and dir_mode supplied by user mount - post on the samba forums ...
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba...er/094405.html

2) Samba frustration root cant mount regular user gets wrong permissions
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...hreadId=772038

Ugra