Jason- It looks like you configuration is correct, I have a very similar setup running over here. You may want to take security out of the equation I would change the file to something like 644 because if Samba isn't running as root then it's not going to be able to read the file. You can check the user it is running under with "ps -ef | grep smb". Your looking for smbd. It does run as root by default so my troubleshooting may not be that helpful to you. Shooting from the hip here...
Oh, here is the copy of the line that I have in my fstab, mine mounts at boot. All one line. //machine/share /mnt/share smbfs auto,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials= /etc/sharepasswd 0 0 -Nick -----Original Message----- From: Jason Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RH9/samba questions 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
--- Begin Message ---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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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