[NCLUG] samba share question

[James DeWitt]

On Tuesday 21 August 2001 17:49, you wrote:
> "J. Paul Reed" wrote:
> > Take a look at smbmount; I don't use samba on a daily basis, but I'm
> > pretty sure that's the "user" utility for mounting shares wherever you
> > want within your own directory space.
>
> yea, thats where I got the idea to put the username and all that in
> /etc/rc.local. If I'm at home (and I am btw) the share which is also the
> user password is in plain text so anyone that can read /etc/rc.local can
> see it plain as day. again, here at home no big deal, but in a work
> environment...
> ... snip...

I call a script containing the smbmount command from /etc/rc.d/rc.local on 
a Linux machine at work.  The script file is owned by root:root with 
permissions of 700.

It is necessary to specify uid=UID  gid=GID (and perhaps fmask=FMASK 
dmask=DMASK) in order to get the thing to behave.

Cheers,
James DeWitt