[olug] Automount cifs shares in Fedora FC2/FC3

[Jon H. Larsen]

Hi All,

Here's a handy way to mount cifs (samba) shares on system bootup.
I've done this is FC2 and FC3, YMMV in other distros.

You'll need to edit fstab, so you should be comfortable with doing so.

Login as root

Create the file /etc/samba/auth.smb in your favorite text editor.
In it, you should place the username and password for the share you plan 
to connect to.  It should look like this:

username=myuserid
password=mypasswd

Save it.

Protect it:
chmod 600 /etc/samba/auth.smb

This way, only root can read it.

You can create a few /etc/samba/auth.smb.whatever if different machines 
have different userids/passwords.  Just reference the correct 
credentials=auth.* in /etc/fstab.

Next, edit /etc/fstab.  Add a new line to the bottom of your /etc/fstab 
like to the line below (remember, this is all one line, but your email 
client will break the line, use other fstab entries as your guide):

//server/share   /mnt/share  cifs    
nosuid,nodev,noexec,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.smb,uid=500,gid=500,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0755 
0 0

Change the uid and gid to match your own.  Mine are uid=500,gid=500, as 
I'm the only user on my box.

Save it.

Next, create the mount point

mkdir /mnt/share

Go into the Fedora init.d dir:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/

./netfs restart

You should see something close to this:
Unmounting CIFS filesystems:                               [  OK  ]
Mounting CIFS filesystems:                                 [  OK  ]
Mounting other filesystems:                                [  OK  ]

Make sure you add netfs to your runlevel startup.

chkconfig --add netfs

Now, your samba shares will mount each time you boot your system.

Jon L.

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