/dev/hda5            /scr                 auto       noauto,user           0 0

/dev/hda2            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0

......

/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

//itsont05/data

/shares/data_g smbfs

credentials=/root/.credentials 

0 

0

This works fine unless the Windows file share uses non standard characters. In 

contrast to UNIX like operating systems, Windows allows you to use space 

characters or even German umlauts in the names of file shares. You may run 

into problems in the case where the Windows file shares contain special 

characters. For example, the /etc/fstab file uses the space character as a 

delimiter, so if a share contains a space, it will take the following string as a 

mount point. So, while mounting the  project data  file share, the mount 

command complains about several errors in the fstab file, as it tries to use data 

as a mount point.

Tip:

 When mounting Windows file shares in a Linux file system, it is very 

reasonable to check the names of the shares for special characters. 

Renaming them UNIX compliant can save a lot of time and annoyance.

Thus we had to use another way of mounting the file share, and we decided to 

extend the /etc/rc.local file with the corresponding 

smbmount

 commands.

Modifications to rc.local are shown in Example 6 8.

Example 6 8   Extended rc.local file

#!/bin/sh

#

# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.

# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don t

# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

#mounting windows file shares

smbmount //itsont05/data /shares/data_g  o credentials=/root/.credentials,

gid=ITSOAUSNT+Domain\ Users,dmask=0775

smbmount //itsont02/"project data" /shares/projectdata_e  o credentials=/root/.credentials,

gid=ITSOAUSNT+Domain\ Users,dmask=0775

If using file shares with special characters here, it is necessary to put them in 

quotation marks, as shown in the last line of the example above. The gid and 

dmask options of the 

smbmount

 command are used to ensure that the 

permissions are set in the right way for the Linux directories in which the shares 

are mounted. If they are left out, users would not have write permissions 

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