Automating Mounting with Linux Samba Clients
You can also automate the mounting of shares by placing entries in your /etc/fstab file. In the example below the home directory of user peter on server 192.168.1.100 will be mounted on the /mnt/smb mount point as a Samba filesystem (smbfs) using the login information in the file named /etc/cred.
#
# File: /etc/fstab
#
//192.168.1.100/peter /mnt/smb smbfs credentials=/etc/cred 0 0
The contents of the /etc/cred file needs to have the username and password for the account in this format
#
# File: /etc/cred
#
username = peter
password = peterspassword
Once finished, you can use mount -a to mount the new /etc/fstab entry, and the /mnt/smb directory will contain the contents of the share.
[root@smallfry tmp]# mount -a
[root@smallfry tmp]# ls /mnt/smb
backups profile docs data music
[root@smallfry tmp]#
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