Automounting a Windows Share

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Mon Jul 18 18:41:46 UTC 2005


 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Phil Vecchione
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Automounting a Windows Share
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a linux machine (Fedora Core 2) and a Windows XP 
> machine. I have an mp3 collection on the XP machine, that I 
> would like to make available to the linux machine.
> 
> I can use the following mount command and successfully mount 
> the drive:
> 
> mount.cifs //MACHINE/mp3_org mp3/ -o password=
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to have this drive automounted, so that when I 
> reboot the Windows machine (every few days) I don't have to 
> mount the drive manually from the linux machine.
> 
> I read a few HOWTO's but did not have much luck.
> 
> I did edit the /etc/auto.master file and added the following line:
> 
> /auto   /etc/auto.misc  --timeout=30
> 
> 
> Then I created the /auto directory and created in it a 
> directory called mp3/, as the mount point for the automount.
> 
> Then I went into the /etc/auto.misc file and added the 
> following entry:
> 
>  mp3  -fstype=smbfs,password= ://MACHINE/mp3_org 
> 
> 
> 
> I saved everything, restarted autofs, but I cannot automount 
> the drive.
> 
> I think I am just stuck on the proper syntax of the statement 
> in the auto.misc file, but I am stumped.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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# /etc/auto.misc ####
mp3           -fstype=cifs,credentials=/root/.pass
MACHINE:/mp3_org
#####################

.pass should contain the following:
###############
username=someuser
password=somepassword
################


	-Mike





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