How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?

[Micheal Patterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Jayson Alvarez" <jay2xra at yahoo.com>
To: "albi" <albi at scii.nl>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: How can I specify the ipaddress in smbfs entry in fstab?


>
> --- albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> >                          mountpt
>> > //guest at samba/mp3s       /mp3
>>
>> you can probably use e.g.
>>
>> //guest at 10.1.1.1/mp3s      /mp3
>
> It still doesn't work.
> I remember mounting it manually using the command
>
> mount_smbfs -I ipaddress  //guest at samba/mp3s /mtpoint
>
> I don't think substituting ipaddress(eg, 10.1.1.1) for
> "samba" in guest at samba will make any sense because I
> still have to specify its IP address using the "-I"
> option whenever I mount it manually.
>
>
>> in your /etc/fstab, but of course you can also add
>> your samba-server
>> in /etc/hosts
>
> tried it also, but didn't work.
>
> Anymore idea? thanks.
>


If you trust those with root access on your system, you can use the 
/etc/nsmb.conf file and configure that with the proper info for the 
remote server:

[HOST:USER:SHARE_NAME]
addr=HOST_IP
password=USER_password_on_remote_system
workgroup=domain/workgroup

... then edit your fstab to something like:

//USER at HOST/SHARE       /mountpoint        smbfs   rw,-N,-I=remote 
system ip   0  0

USER, HOST, SHARE are the same as in the nsmb.conf file, and I've found 
that these are often case sensitive. If the password is listed in 
nsmb.conf, then the -N in the fstab entry will use that password and not 
require you to enter it. Once done, a simple mount /mountpoint should 
get you on your way.

Hope it helps.

--

Micheal Patterson
TSG Network Administration
405-917-0600

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