- Samba meaning install#
- Samba meaning password#
This is preferred over having passwords in plaintext in a shared file, such as /etc/fstab. credentials=:specifies a file that contains a username and/or password.
Samba meaning password#
If the password is not specified directly or indirectly via an argument to mount mount.cifs will prompt for a password, unless the guest option is specified. If this option is not given then the environment variable PASSWD is used.
pass= or password=: specifies the CIFS password. This option can also take the form "user%password" or "workgroup/user" or "workgroup/user%password" to allow the password and workgroup to be specified as part of the username. If this is not given, then the environment variable USER is used. user= or username=: Thats the user which is used to authenticate against the server. I'll try to mention the most important here. Mount.cifs takes a lot of options, some of them are really confusing. Now an explaination of the options for mount -t cifs as described in man mount.cifs Mountpoint must be a directory elsewhere in the filesystem which must exist. The smbclient utility can also be used to identify the tcp name or ip address of a server (identified by its netbios name). You also have to add the wins option to hosts in your /etc/nf. It is a shared library which must be in the path of your ldd. To resolve the to a ip address, you need either a DNS server which knows the ip address or your client needs the nss module wins. To mount using the cifs client, a tcp name (rather than netbios name) must be specified for the server. Server's listen for incoming client connections via TCP/IP and thus have ip addresses, and usually tcp host names configured for them, but users often refer to the server by its "netbios name" (RFC1001 name). The mount helper mount.cifs is the user space helper and needed to parse tcp/ip names and retrieve userid and password, and also does simple formatting of the mount options. 
The mount utility calls a mount helper, usually mount.cifs which calls into the kernel. The basic mount command is mount -t cifs ///.
Samba meaning install#
to get a newer version with bugfixes) and do not install it in the default location, then you may need to load it prior to mount a share or let modprobe load it via nf in order to get the newer cifs module rather than the one shipped with your distribution. Since the cifs filesystem is included in the standard Linux kernel, it is simple to build it either as module or built in. That said, I'll describe only the cifs module in this document. Although older documentation says to use the smbfs, it has many restrictions and the cifs should be favoured. You need at least the smbfs (which is no longer maintained) or the modern cifs kernel modules. Using a share from a samba server within a unix filesystem depends on a lot of single components. Mounting samba shares from a unix client General description 1.4 Step by Step list to get it working.
1 Mounting samba shares from a unix client.
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