[ILUG] Samba--smbclient will, smbmount won't

[Kevin O' Riordan]

> For obvious reasons I don't like specifying the password in
> plain view, so if you omit the password option, it prompts you.

the 'credentials' option allows you to keep the password out of plain
view (though still in plain text, unfortunately).

    bash-2.05a# grep smbfs /etc/fstab
    //server/share    /mnt/mountpoint  smbfs  credentials=/root/blah.pass

    bash-2.05a# cat /root/blah.pass
    username = Administrator
    password = password

hth
-kev

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