Questions re samba/cifs stuff in general
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jan 31 02:26:35 UTC 2008
On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Rick Stevens wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I guess I'm getting lazy in my dotage, but do we have in our current bag
>> of tricks, a gui program that can display the available cifs/samba shares
>> on the local network, and then allow the local mounting of such a visible
>> share by nothing more elegant than having the user enter both the username
>> to log in as, and the password, hopefully remembering those items till the
>> rapture or some such silly amount of time?
>
>If you use Gnome, can't you see them via "Places->Network->Windows
>Network"? If you double click on one of the servers there, it should
>ask you for username, password and domain.
>
Unforch, I use kde. I was thinking I'd seen something along these lines, but
either my eyesight is going to hell, or some upgrade removed it, which I have
NDI.
>> I ask because I just spent over an hour trying to get the syntax right for
>> a mount.cifs invocation to do just that. I hate manpages without any
>> actual, known to work examples.
>>
>> Also, where did smbmount go? Its loss means that even if I could have
>> recovered my even more complex script from the old FC6/etc/init.d, it
>> would have failed. I can reinvent that wheel eventually but its been 7 or
>> 8 years since I had to fool with this & things get rusty, call it CRS,
>> whatever.
>
>smbmount was killed off in favor of mount.cifs. However, it's easier to
>use a standard mount command, but specify "-t cifs":
I did try that, cuz my old script used it that way, but couldn't seem to get
that chaw of red man positioned right & at my age, virgins are in very short
supply. :-)
>
> mount -t cifs //server/share /mountpoint \
> -o user=username,domain=workgroup,password=password
I wound up using this, but since all are the same domain, I didn't supply
that. Could that be a security risk? That machine is on the same switch as
this one, and all are this side an x86 box running dd-wrt with its firewall
enabled. I think the only real security risk is probably me & PEBKAC. :)
>or you could put all the options in one option:
>
> -o user=workgroup/username%password
>
>Even better, use a credentials file with the username and password in
>it so it's not visible in a command history:
Getting more paranoid as the years go by, that's also sounding like a better
idea. I'll recheck the man page, thanks Rick.
> -o domain=workgroupname,credentials=/path/to/cred/file
>
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Nahh, that would spoil all the fun! :)
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Cheers, Gene
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