Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 00:24:40 -0500, H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> H.S. wrote: >> >>> Now what remains to be done is to get the right configuration for samba. >>> At present, I am using sudo with username and password to mount the >>> samba folder: >>> $> sudo mount -t cifs -o username=hs //gurh/Music /mnt/videos >> Better alternative: >> $> smbmount //M/Videos ~/Videos -o username=hs >> >> followed by the password. Then I get the mounted directory in ~/Videos. >> To unmount, I use "smbumount ~/Videos". > > Glad you managed to get it working. > > I do not manually mount/umount but instead have the following in my > /etc/fstab > > [ Remote machine called gaia, folder to share 'fileserver', mounted on > /mnt/fileserver ] > > //gaia/fileserver /mnt/fileserver cifs //guest,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
So you have set up samba to not require a password when a user connects to the server? > Of course, this presupposes that the remote PC is 'always there'. Yes, of course. > I use static IPs with all machines on the LAN in the hosts file, > otherwise I believe I would need to use something like > "//192.168.200.7/fileserver" instead. I use dnsmasq on my router machine to solve this problem. Works very well. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
