Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

This works for me... In /etc/fstab:- //share/name /mount/point cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0 In the credentials file:- username=your-windows-user password=XXXXXXXXXXX

Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root.

i have managed to get this working now using smbfs - there were 2 issues it seems

1 - samba-client was not installed, that was an oversight on my behalf

2 - on the RH7.3 box the domain is not needed for the user but on the CentOS 4 machine something is different in the samba client as without the domain i get an 'Accedd Denied' issue. So for me using smbfs and DOMAIN\username works

thanks