Hi all,
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I am having a simple problem with mounting
a networked file share with Samba. I am running RH 9.0 with all of the
updates.
I am trying to connect to the filestore that is part of our M$ Windoze 2000
network. I have put an entry in my /etc/fstab file that looks like this:
//BALDER/PUB /mnt/balder smbfs
username=<name>,passwd=<password> 0 0
This is working fine. Every time I log into the system, I get my desktop
with a new Balder icon so that I can browse the store
However, after monitoring some of the latest posts to this mailing list, I
realized that I could put the username and password in a "credentials" file
that I could then protect (by setting its permissions to 0600) instead of
having my username/password in plain text in the shared /etc/fstab file.
So, I created the credentials file (/root/balder), set its permissions to
0600, and changed the entry in /etc/fstab to be:
//BALDER/PUB /mnt/balder smbfs credentials=/root/balder 0 0
[as an aside, I also tried putting 'credentials=~/balder' into /etc/fstab,
which did not work]
Before anyone says or does anything drastic ;-), I am just experimenting
with the root account - I will come up with a better, non-root way later. I
don't want to get clocked with the security "clue-by-four" :-).
I tried both running mount/umount from a command line and rebooting and
relogging in; the credentials file worked, but I lost the nice Balder icon
stopped appearing on my desktop. I surmised that it was because the name of
my credentials file was the same as the name of the (now disappeared) icon,
so I tried renaming the file and modifying /etc/fstab accordingly. However,
the filestore would no longer mount, no matter what alternate name I chose
for the credentials file (even when I went back to the name balder); when I
ran 'mount /mnt/balder', the mount program appeared to just hang (e.g. no
output to the console) until I finally killed the process. Since this time,
I have not been able to get the credentials file to work, even if I delete
it and start again.
Finally, I deleted the credentials file and went back to putting my
username and password in the /etc/fstab file, and I am back to where I
started.
My credentials file looked exactly like the man page for smbmount specified
(2 lines)
username = <name>
password = <password>
(in fact, the file worked fine until I tried to rename it).
Any help would be appreciated
Best Regards,
Jason Murray
Senior Design Engineer
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