mount -a

And then I can find the disk get mounted automatically, even reboot the system.

Format I am using includes a “space” in the share name, so I enclosed the windows share name in quotes, which works if I manually mount the share, but does not work with the fstab file. Any ideas how to accomplish this?

What I noticed is that the “fstab” runs at the beginning of the boot cycle to link the local hard drives and set up the needed filesystems, for the Linux to load, so eth0 has not run yet and therefore a network share, especially a windows share will not load, since networking is not yet established.

I also noticed that since the SAMBA daemon runs later, after eth0 has run, then if the shares are correctly declared there, the windows network shares will link in, what I find missing is a good definition of how to set/call the a.) domain, b.) windowsusername, c.) windowsuserpwd within the smb.conf file.

Since my flavor of Linux is Ubuntu I opened a thread on this at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1757009

Though I mentioned a script there, not stuck on that, if I can do it in the smb.conf file.

Thanks!

OMR

thanks

So my question is this, how do you have the automount happen after the network connection?

Here’s my fstab entry:

//windowsshare/dir /mnt/point cifs rw,domain=DOMAIN,credentials=/path/filename,fmask=0664,dmask=0775

Thanks

It’s a bit more complicated to set up than this, though. There are various tutorials out there and it can vary a little between the distros.

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

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).

yours
Manikandan KM

yours
g.p.selvam

-> man mount.cifs (line 85)