CIFS mount on boot

[aaron9615]

What is the best way to run a CIFS mount on boot, that requires a username and password for authentication?

[Irithori]

mount.cifs takes the credentials argument.
With that you can define a filename containing username/password/domain.
Place this file somewhere safe and with readonly for root (and root alone)

[aaron9615]

mount.cifs takes the credentials argument.
With that you can define a filename containing username/password/domain.
Place this file somewhere safe and with readonly for root (and root alone)

I have the CIFS mount manually working by going into the BASH and running the command as SU. What I would like to do is when a user logs in the command runs automatically for them. The user is a non SUDOer. Any ideas?

[bobmct]

I've appended the mount action to my /etc/fstab file and it now automatically mounts at boot time. Just what you're looking for.

Here's what the line should look like:

//192.168.1.9/documents /NAS9 smbfs user=username,passwd=password,fmast=775,uid=1000,d mast=777,gid 0 0
remote server/directory mount pt type credentials (your values should be different)


After you've added this then from the command line do "sudo mount -a" and that should be it.

Good luck.

[aaron9615]

Still learning here is this applied at the top of the fstab file or the bottom?

I've appended the mount action to my /etc/fstab file and it now automatically mounts at boot time. Just what you're looking for.

Here's what the line should look like:

//192.168.1.9/documents /NAS9 smbfs user=username,passwd=password,fmast=775,uid=1000,d mast=777,gid 0 0
remote server/directory mount pt type credentials (your values should be different)


After you've added this then from the command line do "sudo mount -a" and that should be it.

Good luck.

[yancek]

is this applied at the top of the fstab file or the bottom?

Should not make any difference where it is as long as it is on a separate line.

[NixSavy]

Its good to have password file created and point in fstab using "credentials".