Working With Fstab

I am trying to get a Windows XP share to be available on boot to a certain user (me). I can mount the location manually with this command successfully:

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.129/htdocs /home/user/share/htdocs -o username=default,password=default

where "user" is the particular user I am making this available to. Smbs and smbmount are not available to me, I am running openSUSE 10.3.

so in my etc/fstab I added this line to the bottom:

//192.168.0.129/htdocs /home/user/share/htdocs cifs username=default,password=default 0 0

but upon a reboot I can't access the files.

I am on a home network behind a router and the IP address for the machine I am trying to reach is static. Its works fine everytime with the manual mount, but not when placed in fstab. I presume I have a syntax error or something. Any ideas?

**** forum_noob too, sorry for the double post :unsure: *****

I am trying to get a Windows XP share to be available on boot to a certain user (me). I can mount the location manually with this command successfully:

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.129/htdocs /home/user/share/htdocs -o username=default,password=default

where "user" is the particular user I am making this available to. Smbfs and smbmount are not available to me, I am running openSUSE 10.3.

so in my etc/fstab I added this line to the bottom:

//192.168.0.129/htdocs /home/user/share/htdocs cifs username=default,password=default 0 0

but upon a reboot I can't access the files.

I am on a home network behind a router and the IP address for the machine I am trying to reach is static. Its works fine everytime with the manual mount, but not when placed in fstab. I presume I have a syntax error or something. Any ideas?

Maybe the network is not up and running when the fstab mount is attempted. This is quite common. You probably would find it works ok if you issue mount -a from a root console once up and running. There are some solutions to this problem outlined here:

http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambacifs.html

Hi l_n

I use a real username and a real password (or link in a credentials file) and make the mount owned by a particular user and the group users (perhaps it's you)

Have a look here for improvements:
HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Mapped Network Drive] in openSUSE 10.2, 10.3


Swerdna

Please do not double post -- it's so confusing. I'll have a go at merging them

Thanks for the input and time spent, I will look at your suggestions and get back with the results. And yes sorry about the double post. My connection hiccuped after hitting submit, and I didn't realize it had gone through, I should have checked before submitting again.