Mounting question

[Scott Ehrlich]

I've successfully used:

- ensure it exists or create a mount point on /mnt (say /mnt/remote_share)

- [as root or sudo] mount -t cifs //remote_server/shared_dir 
/mnt/remote_share -o 
user=your_windows_creds_on_machine_or_domain,domain=machine_or_domain_name

The mount line is one continuous line - no line breaks!

Yes, you actually do -o user=blah,domain=blah to authenticate yourself to 
the domain/machine to mount.

Works every time for me.

Now what I'd like to know is if there a faster way to remotely mount a 
Windows/SMB share without having to be sudo/root.

I've found trying to mount as -t smbfs caused failures and problems.  Once 
I replaced -t smbfs with -t cifs, the problems went away.

Scott

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> 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!)?
>
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