Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Hugh Lawson wrote, on 31/03/08 00:06:
> Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> writes:
>
>
> > The smbfs package, which depends on samba-common includes the
> > mount.cifs binary:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > The format of the /etc/fstab entry changed, requiring the IP address
> > of the remote system rather than just the NetBIOS name:
> >
> > # old format, should all be on one line:
> > #//chocolate/chocolatec /chocolatec smbfs
> > rw,guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset
> > =utf8,codepage=cp850    0       0
> >
> > # new format, should all be on one line:
> > //10.0.0.2/chocolatec /chocolatec cifs
> > rw,guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=ut
> > f8      0       0
>
> On my very small home network, the Windows computer gets its IP
> address from a router by dhcp. How to get this IP for the remote Linux
> /etc/fstab file?  Can this be automated?

I set up my  router to assign IP addresses based on the MAC addresses of 
the machines, having tried a few other ideas and not succeeded. One 
could also assign static IPs to the machines.

Arthur.