Author: Alex Phillips Date: To: Alan Pope, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Where's the best place to mount NAS?
Alan Pope wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:14:31PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> sudo mount -t smbfs //sharename /mnt/wherever
>>
>
> I do this (as others have mentioned) via the /etc/fstab file.
>
> //192.168.1.39/drobo /media/drobo cifs
> guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode 0 0
>
> All of that on one line. All my machines have that line and they mount the
> drobo samba share at boot under /media/drobo. I guess I should have it under
> /mnt/drobo, but I don't really care :)
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
Al,
You need to have the package smbfs installed for this to work, it
wasn't installed by default on my Hardy install. (sudo apt-get install
smbfs)
