Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

[Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com>]

Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> writes:

> 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.

Thanks Arthur.  I didn't know about cifs.  


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Hugh Lawson
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