Mounting a samba share via fstab

[Tim]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:21 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Since I wanted the mount to appear on my desktop, I omitted the nodev
> option. 

Unless things have changed, that's not what the "nodev" option means.
It means that that devices cannot be created there.  It's used as a
security measure in a similar way that "noexec" can be used (making it
harder to run executable files from that mount point.

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