Samba and fstab
A. Clausen
techlists at alberni.net
Wed Feb 8 10:02:02 PST 2006
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
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