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From: James Chapman <jvchapman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Mounting a Windows Share at Boot
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 10:08:15
Message-Id: a17e142b05050803081b7f3a44@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Mounting a Windows Share at Boot by Patrick Lauer
1 Alternativly you could just put the mount command into a startup script and
2 execute that at boot.
3
4 I did it this way, I couldn't get the windows share to mount from
5 /etc/fstab. Was on another distro so maybe thats why ?
6
7 regards
8 James
9
10 On 5/6/05, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
11 >
12 > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:35 -0400, Karl Zander wrote:
13 > > There is a Windows share that we would like to mount at boot time. Is
14 > that
15 > > possible?
16 > >
17 > > We have smbsf compiled into the kernel. Using smbmount we can mount and
18 > > access that share now. Is it somehow possible to put this into
19 > /etc/fstab
20 > > so it can mount at boot? Or is there another way?
21 > //server/share /where/you/want/it smbfs noatime username=foo,password=blah
22 > 0 0
23 >
24 > or something quite similar should do the trick. I've used it in the
25 > past, so it is possible to directly mount from /etc/fstab.
26 >
27 > wkr,
28 > Patrick
29 >
30 >
31 >
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36 XP is the fisher price of operating systems - Simon Frost
37 Windows: A colourful clown suit for DOS - Unknown

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Re: [gentoo-server] Mounting a Windows Share at Boot James Hunt <james@××××××××.net>