Using Samba, Second Edition

Name

smbmount

Synopsis

This program mounts an smbfs filesystem on a mount point in the Unix filesystem. It is typically called as mount.smb from mount, although it can also be run directly by users. After mounting the smbfs filesystem, smbmount continues to run as a daemon as long as the filesystem is mounted. It logs events in the file log.smbmount in the same directory as the other Samba log files (which is commonly /usr/local/samba/var by default). The logging level is controlled by the debug level parameter in the Samba configuration file.

Command synopsis

smbmount service mount_point [-o options]

The service argument specifies the SMB share to mount, given as a UNC. The mount_point argument specifies a directory to use as the mount point. The options to smbmount are specified as a comma-separated list of key = value pairs. The documented options are as follows. Others can be passed if the kernel supports them.

Options

username= name

Specifies the username to connect as. If this is not provided, the environment variable USER will be tried. The name can be specified as username % password, user / workgroup, or user / workgroup % password.

password= string

Specifies the SMB password. If no password is provided using this option, the username option, or the credentials option, the environment variable PASSWD is used. If that also does not exist, smbmount will prompt interactively for a password.

credentials= filename

Specifies a file that contains a username and password in the following ...