<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 12:24 -0500, Arch Willingham wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I have read a bunch of stuff on how to do this but the exact steps are unclear. Some articles say to use the "mount -t smbfs -o username=username //winclient/blahblah /mnt/winclient-blahblah", some say to use "smbmount" and some say not to use cifs (mount -t cifs -o username=netuser,password=hiddenword //windowsmachine/origin /home/username/destination). Which one is the best? </BLOCKQUOTE> The cifs is more stable. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Then there is the while issue of the fstab thing. What I want to do is mount a directory on a windows machine at boot time (I.E> when the Linux machine boots). </BLOCKQUOTE> For this use the fstab. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I want all users to be able to have the local directory \images be re-routed to a directory on a windows machine. I see some of the commands but each has the mount command that shows the password to get to the windows machine. Is there any way to get the password from a file so that all users of the Linux machine can't see the password? Thanks! Arch <PRE> -- fedora-list mailing list <A HREF="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</A> To unsubscribe: <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Marcelo de Souza Sant'Anna </BODY> </HTML>