SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[D. R. Evans]

O. Sinclair said the following at 12/05/2007 08:21 AM :

>> Can someone please post an example /etc/fstab line for either an smbfs or a
>> cifs mount that works on gutsy?
>>
>>   Doc
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> I don't have one any more, I gave up after tampering for ever - got it 
> working and then forgot how. BUT I remember I had to use the ip-number 
> of the server in question instead of any computername.
> 
> That said (no I have no shares or so) I dropped all that after finding 
> that the Gutsy version of Smb4k does the job for me automagically.

The synopsis for smb4k says that it's for KDE -- unfortunately, this is one
of those (rare) occasions when I don't want a GUI tool; I want something
that will cause the system to mount the share so I can use command-line
tools without the need to start KDE.

Having googled at length, I see that lots of people have had similar
problems, and many of them never did find a good way to access Windows
shares with cifs.

I now have a command-line command that works, but nothing I can think of
has worked for /etc/fstab. I have collected quite a set of error messages,
though :-) It's a pity that none of them are any help (except to suggest
reading the man page, which of course I've done many times without the
magic penny dropping).

  Doc