Not sure what to do

[John Thompson]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:31:14 -0700
Terry Truitt <linuxgroups at family-pages.net> wrote:

> I understand what you are saying and the fact is, the network is
> already setup for Windows to read the Linux box. What we are trying to
> do is get the Linux box to see the Windows box at boot-up. ie: mount a
> shared network dir located on the windows box in a dir on the Linux
> box. So that he does not have to manually mount it after it is done
> booting. We have already been able to mount it that way. Just need to
> know what to add to fstab so the dir mounts at boot. But thank you for
> the input. 

If you already have samba working, you should just be able to add a line to /etc/fstab:

//windows_machine/share_name /mount/point smbfs users,auto,rw

and your windows_machine/share_name will be mounted on /mount/point

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-John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com)