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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:08:38 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote:
> Typically, Samba is used so that Windows or other SMB type
> OS'es can access the server. That said, I would simplify all
> this with the way I have mine setup. You will of course need
> the shares configured in your smb.conf, then simply put a
> command in your /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/ to launch smdb
> and nmbd. I don't rely on anything in /etc/fstab to use samba.
> It's all in my smb.conf file.

Yes, that would be "the other way round", which I thought would
be less probable due to the question presented in the subject.
Terms like "mount [...] on boot" suggests that FreeBSD would act
as a SMB client here. Of course, the standard way to do things
like this would usually be something like NFS, which is not
very well supported in "Windows" land (and therefor requiring
SMB stuff).

Delegating the configuration into _one_ file (instead of spreading
it across /etc/fstab, /etc/nsmb.conf and maybe some handcrafted
/usr/local/etc/rc.d script) sounds like a much better approach.




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...