smb

I have many computers I need to connect to from my Linux box. Network browsing works, but is terribly slow, so I want to create some shortcuts, that I can mount with a single mouseclick what I need from a list. First I thought to modify the fstab and put there entries that would allow me to easily mount smb shares as a normal user. E.g.:

//paula/michael /media/smbmounts smbfs noauto,user,credentials=/home/jeltsch/.smbpasswd1 0 0

First I added a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/rc5.d/:

cd /etc/init.d/rc5.d sudo ln -s ../autofs S21autofs

Then I added to the /etc/auto.master the following line:

/media/automounts /etc/auto.smbmounts

Then I created the file auto.smbmounts with the following content:

michael_msbl.helsinki.fi -fstype=smbfs,username=michael,password=## ://paula/michael

Then I created the mountpoint:

sudo mkdir /media/automounts/michael_msbl.helsinki.fi

Then I activated the autofs daemon:

The command to figure out what shares are available e.g. on the computer 192.168.0.2 type:
For nfs: /usr/sbin/showmount -e 192.168.0.2
For samba: smbclient -L 192.168.0.2