As explained earlier you can use the mount command to mount a remote windows partition or a windows share under Linux.
/etc/fstab file contains static information about the filesystems. The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems. fstab is only read by programs, and not written; it is the duty of the system administrator to properly create and maintain this file.
To mount a Samba share to be mounted when a Linux system comes up after reboot edit the /etc/fstab file and put entry as follows for your Windows/Samba share:
//ntserver/share /mnt/samba smbfs username=username,password=password 0 0
For example, if you want to mount a share called //ntserver/docs then you need to write following entry in /etc/fstab file://ntserver/docs /mnt/samba smbfs username=docsadm,password=D1Y4x9sw 0 0Where,
- //ntserver/docs: Windows 2003/NT/Samba share name
- /mnt/samba: Local mount point (you may need to create this directory first)
- smbfs: File system type (samba file system)
- username=docsadm,password=D1Y4x9sw: Share username and password
Open file /etc/fstab using vi text editor:# vi /etc/fstabAppend line //ntserver/docs /mnt/samba smbfs username=docsadm,password=D1Y4x9sw 0 0, at the end your file should read as follows:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 //ntserver/docs /mnt/samba smbfs username=docsadm,password=D1Y4x9sw 0 0
Replace sharename, username and password with your actual parameters.
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Okay, but the use of the term “automount” here
is misleading. I was looking for how to configure
autofs to work with samba shares.
It disturb me that username and passwd appears clearly in the fstab file. Is there another solution ?
Martial,
Try to put password/username in different file and make sure password file is only accessed by root. See url for an example:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/access-windows-shares-from-linux/
I have to agree with Scott, “automount” in the title is misleading. I too was looking for info on configuring samba with autofs.
The following link might be useful to Scott and also has details on moving the username/password to a different file.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Auto_mount_filesystems_(AUTOFS)
first create the below in root home directory:
cd
echo username=mywindowsusername > .smbpasswd
echo password=mywindowspassword >> .smbpasswd
chmod 600 .smbpasswd
Then the below line will be changed:
//ntserver/docs /mnt/samba smbfs username=docsadm,password=D1Y4×9sw 0 0
To :
//servername/sharename /mountdirectory smbfs credentials=/home/myhomedirectory/.smbpasswd 0 0
I’ve put the entry in fstab and put the credentials in another file. It works fine, thank you, but although I can write to the share as root, I can’t as a normal user. I’ve tried chmod on the mount point, but that didn’t work, any ideas?
try this:
//servername/sharename /mountdirectory smbfs credentials=/home/myhomedirectory/.smbpasswd,uid=user,gid=user 0 0
Thanks for the feedback. This actually prompted me to do a little more research on the options and as this share is just a dumping ground I decided to use
//servername/sharename /mountdirectory smbfs credentials=/home/myhomedirectory/.smbpasswd,fmask=666,dmask=777 0 0
so that it’s writeable by everyone.
Thank you for information
I’d like to ask a question and I don’t think the solution is out there….I have a samba share setup that will only allow connections from my LAN IP addresses…therefore, I don’t need user/pass security setup on it.
I have configured it as an open share writeable and readable by anyone connecting from MY LAN. This works through browsing local network in KDE/Gnome or even in Windows. This is nice for my friends who come by and want to connect to my music/movie/game share.
However, I cannot configure a Linux /etc/fstab to mount the share because it keeps asking for a username and password. There IS NO USERNAME nor PASSWORD. So, how does one enter the information so that it can be processed and mounted by fstab?
I think this would be a great ‘how-to’ for you to feature like this article…because there is NOTHING out there on how to do this.
yeah, i am also looking for a solution to the no username/password access to a windows share…
@John and curious mounter
the “guest”-option will do.
-> man mount.cifs (line 85)
hai
i want shared data from windows to linux system.. how can i share different way. plz any one mail to me.
same time i want to modified my pdf file. any pdf writer in linux plz intimated me.
yours
g.p.selvam
hai
i want shared data from windows to linux system.. how can i share different way. plz any one mail to me.
same time i want to modified my pdf file. any pdf writer in linux plz intimated me.
yours
Manikandan KM
loopo, I got excited at the NO USERNAME/NO PASSWORD discussion raised by John and curious mounter, and I appreciate your response that “the “guest”-option will do. -> man mount.cifs (line 85)”, but as I’m a growing newbie, I’m not sure how to apply your response (though I think I understood all the thread up to the point that you responded about the guest option and the arrow point). Currently, Dolphin has no problem accessing my DLink NAS (well, at first it stumbles and doesn’t recognize it, but after I go to Network and work my way to it, it appears with my bookmark, though sometimes it doesn’t even appear under Network until I go to Firefox and use the 192.168.x.xxx call, then it “suddenly” appears when I return to Network — I guess it’s one of those mounting things).
I note that Konqueror seems unable to work with 192.168.x.xxx to configure the NAS, but Firefox always has no trouble with this.
Maybe this is a different problem (or maybe it’s related to the fstab needing to be done first), but what I MOST want to do is have programs (VLC, K9, etc.) to be able to access my DLink NAS, but they seem blind to it through their file access dialog boxes. For example, VLC plays DVD iso’s just fine if it is on a local drive and I drag-&-drop it from Dolphin, but if it is on my NAS, VLC does not recognize the file unless I first copy it with Dolphin to a local drive, then after a drag-&-drop from the local drive, it plays just fine (again, it’s a DVD iso). I’d also like to use K9 to put DVD iso’s directly on the NAS (instead of running them to a local drive from K9 and then later copying them to the NAS for storage), but K9 just doesn’t seem to acknowledge that the NAS exists through its dialog boxes (though Dolphin shows it’s there plain as day after it’s mounted).
If I do the fstab trick in this thread (well, once I understand how to apply your solution), will it solve my problem with VLC & K9, etc.? I have NO NAME & NO PASSWORD like the previous writers mentioned on my NAS so everyone in the house can use it (all the dual-boot Windows based computers on the network have no difficulty whatsoever with the NAS with VLC etc., it’s just the dual-boot Linux systems that stumble from their dialog boxes in a variety of Linux-based programs that are very important to us — we’re trying to get away from Windows completely but we haven’t learned how to do some things with Linux yet).
I am also using the “ip instead of password” idea.
If I am reading this right, user “guest” as the username and leave off the password.
password=arg
specifies the CIFS password. If this option is not given then the environment variable PASSWD is used. If the password is not specified directly or indirectly via an argument to mount mount.cifs will prompt for a password, unless the guest option is specified.
and guest described…
guest
don’t prompt for a password </cite