mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it

[Zane C.B.]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:19:58 +0900
Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

> 
> At Sat, 19 May 2007 22:25:27 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > Is passing a password to mount_smbfs non-interactively possible? I
> > know it can't accept it on STDIN by piping it into it.
> 
> mount_smbfs(8) :
>      -N      Do not ask for a password.  At run time, mount_smbfs
> reads the ~/.nsmbrc file for additional configuration parameters
> and a password.  If no password is found, mount_smbfs prompts for
> it.
> 
> /usr/share/examples/smbfs/dot.nsmbrc :
> [FSERVER:JOE]
> # use persistent password cache for user 'joe'
> password=$$1767877DF
> 
> I'm using -N for shares w/o passwords; I've never tried .nsmbrc
> password myself

This is not useful if ~/ is not mounted and you are planning of
mounting it using mount_smbfs. That is entirely what I am trying to
get to work here.