smbfs automount authentication?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:10 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:

> OK, I'll bite, What is the magic incantation to get the CIFS module to mount
> a w2k ntfs partition? I can use CIFS for a w2k3 ntfs partition but I have never
> succeeded in mounting a w2k NTFS partition.

I use the following in my /etc/fstab file:

//windowsmachinie/share /mnt/winshare       cifs
noauto,users,rw,credentials=/home/userid/.smbpw,uid=userid,gid=userid 0
0

This works well for me.