On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:49:37 -0500, H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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?
Yes - the only users my family and me on a wired LAN. > > 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. I have avoided DHCP altogether and rely on hosts files as there is only a few machines within the LAN. My ISP provides me with a static IP, which makes running mail and web severs easier and the ISP's DNS servers IP addresses don't change either, so I don't think dnsmasq would be of much benefit here. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
