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How do you specify the user that will own the files? Seems like no
matter what I do root owns them. (From Craig's response) I tried
specifying 'user' and my own username like this(see after rw):
tweety -fstype=smbfs,rw,user,username=jpifer,password=pass
://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot
OR
tweety -fstype=smbfs,rw,myuser,username=myuser,password=pass
://192.168.1.20/tweetyroot
I'll have to play around with other file systems, like NFS, and see what
I get.
Thanks,
James
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To automatically mount an smb file system at boot, I have added the following
line in my /etc/fstab file. You can specify User and Group ownership by
number. (Replace "500" with the value correct for your system.) Get those
from the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files respectivly.
//10.7.7.20/Data /mnt/WinXP smbfs uid=500,gid=500,credentials=/etc/smb.txt
The "credentials" paramenter points to file with the following format:
username = YourUserName
password = YourPassword
The drawback here is having your UserID and password in plain text file. I at
recommend:
chmod 600 /etc/smb.txt
chown root:root /etc/smb.txt
So it's at least only readable by root.