Mounting a samba share via fstab

Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Thu Jan 10 22:24:56 UTC 2008


I have read many google threads and cannot seem to figure this one out.

What I did:

1) mkdir /media/Music_A-F
2) chmod 0777 /media/Music_A-F
3) Edited /etc/fstab and added entry (broken up below but single line):
    //server/share/Music%20A-F
    <TAB>/mnt/share/Music_A-F
    <TAB>cifs
    <TAB>nosuid,nodev,noexec,
                username=user,password=passwd,uid=500,
                gid=500,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0755
     <TAB>0 0
4) mount -a
     (No errors reported)
5) ls -ld /media/Music_A-F
    d????????? ? ?    ?        ?                ? Music-AF
6) ls /media/Music_A-F
    ls: cannot access Music-AF: No such file or directory
7) umount /media/Music_A-F
    (No errors reported)
8) ls /media/Music_A-F
    (no errors reported, listed empty directory)

Anything I am missing?

Thanks-




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