Samba Shares and Fstab -- what am I doing wrong?

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Samba Shares and Fstab -- what am I doing wrong?

Post by chowanec »

Hey all,

Sorry to dominate the forums with newbie questions... :)

I'm trying to get this samba share to mount on boot... I can get the share to mount from the command line, and I'm trying to repurpose the mount command in the fstab file to work... here's what does work:

From command line

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 sudo mount -t smbfs -o fmask=444,dmask=555,guest //mp3/Music /mnt/mp3 
And this part does NOT:

Fstab entry

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
//mp3/Music	/mnt/mp3	smbfs	fmask=444,dmask=555,guest	0	0
Anything obvious I am doing wrong here?
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Re: Samba Shares and Fstab -- what am I doing wrong?

Post by chowanec »

In the event anyone else has this problem... follow the saga (or skip to the end where I almost get it working the way I want...):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3999363
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