mounting samba share on server pc

[Noah Dain]

On 1/30/06, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/30/06, Reuben Kagan <kaganreuben at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > I have a question regarding cifs. I am currently using it, but I only can
> mount it manually, as it is askig password twice.
> > Is there a way to do it automatically at startup?
> >
>
> You don't say how you are trying to mount it.
>
> In the options section of your /etc/fstab file, are you using the
> "credentials=filename" option?
>
>
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I use fstab entries following this syntax:

fstab (this is one line in fstab, not sure if it will get wrapped in email):
//sambaserver/share   /mountpoint  cifs
credentials=credfile,uid=localuser,auto,user

"credfile" should be a text file that looks like:

username=samba-user-name
password=samba-user-password

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