FreeBSD fstab Entry for Windows Share

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:28:33 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> Your message has supplied important information .

As I said, I did obtain it from a system that _has been working_
in that regards. :-)



> When their equivalent values are entered , they worked :
> 
> 
> "WINPC" : NetBIOS_NAME_in_Windows
> workgroup : Work_Group_NAME_in_Windows
> "Administrator" : user_name_in_Windows_Administrators
> F$ : Share_Name_in_Windows
> 
> 
> With the above values :
> 
> /etc/nsmb.conf :
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> 
> [default]
> Workgroup=Work_Group_NAME_in_Windows
> 
> [NetBIOS_NAME_in_Windows]
> addr=192.168.10.25
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> The following values are NOT required ( they are not taken into
> consideration ) :
> 
>         [WINPC:Administrator]
>         password=MYTOPSECRETPASSWORD
> 
> During boot , the password is asked .

If this case of interactivity at system startup is _not_ intended,
the information (username, password) can be obtained from the
/etc/nsmb.conf file. It's important to pay attention to the file
permissions.



> /etc/fstab :
> 
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> 
> //user_name_in_Windows_Administrators at NetBIOS_NAME_in_Windows/Share_Name_in_Windows
> /mnt smbfs  rw 0  0

You could possibly add the "late" option ("rw,auto,late") so in
case of network problems, the boot process won't stop at the
early stage ("fstab error").




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Polytropon
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