Mounting question

[Darren Mansell]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:24 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> I am trying to do some work with some remote Windows shares and while I 
> can easily mount the volume using places->connect to server, it only 
> mounts it under the Ubuntu desktop and some GNOME-aware applications. 
> If I'm trying to do work with scp or cp from a mount point, the path 
> doesn't exist.
> 
> What is the best/easiest way to have, for example, \\windowsserver\share 
> mounted to \mnt\windows so I can use command line file utilities?
> 
Put it in /etc/fstab ie

//server/share    /media/windows smb
uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,credentials=/home/user/.smbpw 0 0

Dont forget to apt-get smbfs

some windows servers require you to use cifs instead of smb for the
filesystem.

Make ~/.smbpw and put 

username=yourusername 
password=yourpassword