[Tfug] Mounting smbfs

[Anthony Steckman]

Shouldn't it look more like this

-rw-r-----    1 root     root           37 Jul 22 08:24 /root/cred

?

Terence Rudkin wrote:
> I too have hung mounting smbfs. 
> This is what I did
> 
> in /etc/fstab 
> //server/d$  /mnt/D     smbfs defaults,user,credentials=/root/cred    0 0
> 
> in /root/cred 
> username = somename
> password = somepass 
> 
> Non root users cannot see the file with permissions:
> drwxr-x---   22 root     root         4096 Nov 12 08:46 root
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           37 Jul 22 08:24 /root/cred
> as long as there are not member of group root. 
>