I would suggest creating a Samba credentials file. Simply create a file (ie: ~/.smbcred) with the lines: username=your_username password=your_password I chmodded this file 700. Now you can put the following in your fstab file: //ir01/images /mnt/ir smbfs uid=563, credentials=/home/your_local_user_name/.smbcred 0 0 This is more secure as your samba password isn't directly in your /etc/fstab file (which is system readable). HTH, John Larry R. Pint wrote: > > I have a (hopefully) simple question about mounting a shared drive on > a Windows machine under Linux (Red Hat release 9). > > In the fstab file, should I list the Windows drives to be mounted by > their windows way of naming (\\computer_name\share_name > <file:///%5C%5Ccomputer_name%5Cshare_name>) or the Linux way of naming > (//computer_name/share_name)? I’m currently using the windows naming > format. Could that be causing problems with the mounting of the drives? > > The reason I’m asking is that we have a drive that was mounting > correctly for quite some time (over a year). Now we’ve added mounting > of another drive and it sometimes hangs up on a reboot at the point of > mounting the smb drives (as far as I can tell). Once mounted, both > drives work. The new drive was added to fstab immediately after the > original drive. (I just copied and modified the line from the working > drive.) They are the last two lines in the file. The two lines are: > > \\ir01\images$ /mnt/ir smbfs > password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=adminname/ourdomain > 0 0 > > \\e-mail-receiver\dropfax$ <file:///%5C%5Ce-mail-receiver%5Cdropfax$> > /mnt/dropfax smbfs > password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=adminname/ourdomain > 0 0 > > Thanks for any ideas you might have. > > Larry R. Pint > > National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc. > > larry.pint at ntuminc.com <mailto:larry.pint at ntuminc.com> > > 952-229-3451 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >