Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Mount Samba share using fstab

To mount a Samba share when Linux system comes up after reboot edit the /etc/fstab file and put entry as follows for your Windows/Samba share:

//ntserver/share /mnt/samba smbfs username=username,password=password 0 0

For example, if you want to mount a share called //ntserver/docs then you need to write following entry in /etc/fstab file:

//192.168.0.1/share /mnt/samba smbfs username=nikesh,password=passwd123 0 0


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