Mounting question

[Bart Silverstrim]

Darren Mansell wrote:
> 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

Is there a way to do this on the fly, as in, "the file is need is on 
XXXX, so I need to mount that share..." instead of putting into the 
fstab (which if I am reading it right would mount it at boot time, but 
please correct me if I'm wrong!)?