[K12OSN] Mounting SAMBA shares on a Linux workstation

[Rob Owens]

You may need to supply logon credentials in your mount
request.  You can create a credentials.txt file like
this:

username=bert
password=12345

and in /etc/fstab have something like this:

...  -t cifs -o credentials=/home/bert/credentials.txt
...

-Rob

--- Bert Rolston <bert.rolston at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Thanks for the help last week.
> 
> Now I've hit another snag.
> 
> I use FC5 as my OS of choice. I'm trying to open
> files on the Samba
> server from Open Office. The OO file browser won't
> let me access the
> network directly, the way Konqueror does. 
> 
> So I've come to the conclusion that I need to mount
> the SAMBA shares in
> my filesystem. Great in theory, difficult in
> practice.
> 
> I've tried using the mount.cifs man pages, but they
> are difficult to
> understand. 
> 
> The Redhat help FAQ's have useful suggestions, but
> it appears I can only
> carry out the methods in their FAQ's as root.
> 
> I can access the files through Konqueror. Which
> means I have to copy the
> file from the server to the local machine. Then I
> can work on it, and
> save it locally. After that I can save back to the
> server. This sort of
> defeats the purpose of a central file store /
> server.
> 
> I've also tried using NFS, but my workstation can't
> find the NFS server.
> 
> How are people on this list going about solving this
> problem?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Bert
> 
> 
> 
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