SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[O. Sinclair]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>> 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
> 
> 
this should work from commandline, don't know about fstab though:
mount -t cifs //server-ipnumber/validservershare /mnt/validmntfolder -o 
username=validuseronserver,password=passwordforthatuseronserver,user, 
fmask=0111,dmask=0000

have not been doing this for some time though (read Feisty and now on 
Gutsy) so don't know how it might work in Gutsy and with your server.

Sinclair