Samba and fstab

[A. Clausen]

Ken Stevenson wrote:

> A. Clausen wrote:
>
>> Slowly educating myself in FreeBSD.  Have managed to get Samba set up 
>> and can access my FreeBSD server, but trying to get SMBFS shares 
>> mounted in fstab is causing me grief.  Either I get errors about 
>> invalid file system or I get nothing at all when I issue "mount -a", 
>> but the share still isn't mounted.  I've tried adding some info to 
>> nsmb.conf, but that doesn't seem to make much difference.
>>
>> I'm running FreeBSD 6 and Samba 3.0.14a.
>>
> Are you trying to mount Windows shares under Samba? If so here's what 
> my fstab looks like:
>
> //ken at amiserver/c    /smb/amiserver    smbfs    rw    0    0
>
> I'm mounting the share named c on a Windows 2000 server named 
> amiserver at the mount point /smb/amiserver on my FreeBSD server.
>
> Edit /etc/nsmb.conf and set the workgroup, addr and password values 
> for your windows share.
>
Thanks for the tips.  It looks like my big mistake was not putting the 
user name in nsmb.conf in all-caps.  Once I did that, mount -a mounted 
all my SMB shares.

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A. Clausen