On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 07:35:06AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:24:06 +0100
> François Patte wrote:
> 
> > user
> > name and password are required!
> 
> I keep reading this is possible, but ever since
> samba 4 came around it seems to be impossible.
> I eventually gave up and made a .bat file with
> the net command to mount the share with a user
> and password hard coded in the .bat file, then
> put the .bat file in the startup folder.

Instead of putting it all in a batch file, including your credentials
a safer way is to put an entry like this in /etc/fstab:

//192.168.2.96/public   /mounts/syno-public       cifs    
credentials=/root/.smbcred,defaults,uid=<your username>,gid=<your 
username>,auto,users,exec,vers=3.0 0 0

i.e., where you use the "credentials=" option, store your credentials
in the file you identify in that option, and assign the file permissions
like this:

ls -l /root/.s*
-rw-------. 1 root root 36 Feb  5  2017 /root/.smbcred

which makes it root readable/writable only. much safer than putting
it all in a shellscript.

this is on Centos 7-up-to-date, using Samba 4.6.2.

the credentials file contents would be of the form:

username=<your windows username>
password=<your windows password>

Oh, and also, the "vers=3.0" forces SMB 3 protocol, which is MUCH less
full of holes than are the earlier versions. Depending on the flavor of
windows you're connecting to, you  may need to relax that to 2 instead
of 3. But don't go to version 1, Microsoft has (finally) deprecated it
as being too insecure for words.

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