non-interactively mount windows-based network shares at login

Richard Duran rduran at dallasairmotive.com
Fri Jan 7 16:55:16 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:07, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:29 -0600, Richard Duran wrote:
> > 
> > Is there something available that may be used to mount windows-based
> > network shares at login without requiring the user to provide their
> > password again? I've read a little bit on pam_mount, but haven't found
> > much documentation yet (although I'm still looking). Is this the right
> > direction for me to be taking?
> 
> See "man smbmount" and read the stuff on passwords and credentials
> files, then construct an appropriate fstab entry if still game.  Just
> typing "smbmount" in a terminal may give sufficient info.
> 
> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaMount may also help.

I'll take a look at this, but it seems that I would have X number of
credential files, which would require that I find out what this X number
of passwords are, and make sure I update the files every time a password
is changed. Am I completely wrong about this?

-richard




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