February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Name
smbmount
Synopsis
This program mounts an smbfs filesystem on a mount point in the Unix
filesystem. It is typically called as mount.smb
from mount, although it can also be run directly
by users. After mounting the smbfs filesystem,
smbmount continues to run as a daemon as long as
the filesystem is mounted. It logs events in the file
log.smbmount in the same directory as the other
Samba log files (which is commonly
/usr/local/samba/var by default). The logging
level is controlled by the debug level parameter
in the Samba configuration file.
Command synopsis
smbmount service mount_point [-o options]The service argument specifies the SMB share to mount, given as a
UNC. The mount_point argument specifies a
directory to use as the mount point. The options to
smbmount are specified as a comma-separated list
of
key
=
value
pairs. The documented options are as follows. Others can be passed if
the kernel supports them.
Options
-
username=name Specifies the username to connect as. If this is not provided, the environment variable USER will be tried. The name can be specified as
username%password,user/workgroup, oruser/workgroup%password.-
password=string Specifies the SMB password. If no password is provided using this option, the username option, or the credentials option, the environment variable PASSWD is used. If that also does not exist, smbmount will prompt interactively for a password.
-
credentials=filename Specifies a file that contains a username and password in the following ...
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