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    Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    I know its possible and I'm expecting someone here has done similar.

    Help would be nice as I'm shyte with unix lol...

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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    Have a read of the first post here;

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534

    It's constantly updated (last update a week ago) and is pretty simple to follow
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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    could do it with samba I think but better to do with NFS.
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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    box hasnt got samba on it, nor does it have a net connection.
    does have nfs tho as nfs at prompt gives me

    # nfs
    Usage: /etc/nfs {start | stop }

    Its SCO openserver 5.something if thats any help..

    I suppose its possible to reconfigure the network card so its got gateway etc addresses so I can get it on the net..

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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    I think you need to use the mount command to mount the share

    http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/U..._24226789.html
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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

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    It says unix, I read linux

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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    have I got this right... You have a windows server and you want to mount a windows shared drive on the server on the linux box? Windows (AFAIK) doesn't natively support NFS so you will need an NFS server app on the windows box, but it would probably be easier to install a samba client on the Unix box and use that.

    http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...OUNTFILESERVER

    If your client has autofs then that should mount a previously mounted FS automatically, otherwise you may need a simple start up script to execute the mount command.
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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    If you install "file and print services for unix" into windows it does support NFS
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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick View Post
    If you install "file and print services for unix" into windows it does support NFS
    In that case, is it not just a matter of setting setting up an entry in /etc/fstab to mount the 'exported' filestore? (or am I really missing something....?)
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    Re: Mounting a windows share on a unix box on boot.

    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick View Post
    If you install "file and print services for unix" into windows it does support NFS
    In that case, is it not just a matter of setting setting up an entry in /etc/fstab to mount the 'exported' filestore? (or am I really missing something....?)

    192.168.1.22:/public /mnt/music nfs auto,user, 0 0

    .s the entry in my fstab file to automount an NFS share from another (in this case linux) system
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