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Hi All,
I have a system that I want to auto mount a samba from another one. The issue is that they are both laptops so doing it by name ...
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- 12-07-2010 #1Linux Guru
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Can't Auto Mount Samba via name only IP
Hi All,
I have a system that I want to auto mount a samba from another one. The issue is that they are both laptops so doing it by name is much much better than by ip. Unfortunately when I try to mount by name with this in my samba:
//joel-studio1737/music/ /media/networked cifs username=someone,password=yeahright 0 0
it fails saying it can't find the location but if I mount it like this:
//10.0.1.5/music/ /media/networked cifs username=againsomeone,password=maybemaybenot 0 0
it works fine. The ip obviously is going to change depending on what network the two systems are on. Any ideas??Bodhi 1.3 & Bodhi 1.4 using E17
Dell Studio 17, Intel Graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, E17
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- 12-07-2010 #2Linux Engineer
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In the smb.conf file there is a line starting with
name resolve order =
make sure that the first entry is bcast
It will use broadcast to do name resolution before
attempting dns or other methods. Probably your only
hope with laptops and IP addresses that change a lot.
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