Mounting question

[Darren Mansell]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:30 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Darren Mansell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:24 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> >> I am trying to do some work with some remote Windows shares and while I 
> >> can easily mount the volume using places->connect to server, it only 
> >> mounts it under the Ubuntu desktop and some GNOME-aware applications. 
> >> If I'm trying to do work with scp or cp from a mount point, the path 
> >> doesn't exist.
> >>
> >> What is the best/easiest way to have, for example, \\windowsserver\share 
> >> mounted to \mnt\windows so I can use command line file utilities?
> >>
> > Put it in /etc/fstab ie
> > 
> > //server/share    /media/windows smb
> > uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,credentials=/home/user/.smbpw 0 0
> > 
> > Dont forget to apt-get smbfs
> > 
> > some windows servers require you to use cifs instead of smb for the
> > filesystem.
> > 
> > Make ~/.smbpw and put 
> > 
> > username=yourusername 
> > password=yourpassword
> 
> Is there a way to do this on the fly, as in, "the file is need is on 
> XXXX, so I need to mount that share..." instead of putting into the 
> fstab (which if I am reading it right would mount it at boot time, but 
> please correct me if I'm wrong!)?
> 
You can put noauto in the options then it will only mount when you
explicitly tell it to.

sudo mount /media/server

alias that to something else for even quicker mounting.