Wednesday, April 3, 2019

windows xp - Mounting Samba Shares at boot/login and using script



I have a Server running on desktop, since my aunt that lives with me is taking classes for MS office it is currently booting XP,
so i have setup sharing of all my drives so i can access my files



but how can i auto mount those drives at boot and also with help of script?
i need the script cause I'm often messing around on laptop and tend to loose connectivity so the scripts need to unmount and den remount, sort of like a referesh.




I have no user id or pass setup on Windows and the drives NTFS permission is set to allow everyone.



how do i achieve what i need?



PS: i managed to create a script but it asks for password every time it mounts a share!!!



The best way to do this is to create an entry in your /etc/fstab. This is the file that handles automatically mounting drives. If you have no credentials set and don't care about security, you would need to add a line like this:



//fileservername/path  /media/fileshare  cifs  username=guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,nobootwait   0   0



Replace fileservername/path with the hostname (or IP address) of the PC that is sharing the files, and the share name. /media/fileshare is where you want to mount the share locally. This directory must already exist. When you need to re-mount this drive, say after a connection loss, etc. use the following:



sudo mount -a


That will attempt to remount any filesystems mentioned in fstab.


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