[juneau-lug] Re: SMB Client

  • From: "James Zuelow" <jamesz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:11:38 -0800


----- Original Message ----- > If you *do* supply these variables, you can
use the mount command in a
> script (or even fstab, but that's a bad idea since the password will be in
> cleartext).  A script readable only by root is handy as you just su to
root
> and run the script, which can mount one or a hundred Windows shares.  Sudo
> is very handy here.  Note that if you issue the `su` command as a user,
your
> username is unchanged, so you can use su to mount the share without
> supplying a user name.  If you `su -` as a user, your username will become
> root.  (man su)

Just as an example of how this can be useful:

I have a tape drive on one of my Linux machines.  I set up a crontab entry
for root to run a backup script every night.  This script mounts various
directories on my Win98 box, then backs them up to tape using afio (or you
could use tar, dump, cpio, what-have-you).  After verifying the backup with
afio, it unmounts the shares.  It's a poor-man's network backup system.  I
need to supply the username and password with the -o option because root
isn't mapped to any Windows98 user, and I don't want to get up every night
to enter them at the prompts.

Cheers,

James


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