The need:I needed to mount a remote (located on 10.0.0.7) Samba folder (named solaria) so that I can use .iso file without downloading it to my local machine (Suse 11.1)
The solutionYou can mount the remote driver by hand but I'm lazy so I want it mounted automatically so here is what I did:
1. Created a [solaria] folder in /mnt folder
2. Added the following line in /etc/
fstab//10.0.0.7/solaria/ /mnt/solaria cifs auto,password= 0 0 Now the next time you start you OS you will see the content of the remote folder in your /mnt/fstab
See that I used a blank (no) password for the smb account as I allow guest logins
You can also
mount it with the next command
mount /mnt/solariaand
unmount it with
umount /mnt/solariaNoteOne interesting stuff is that the old smbfs was renamed to cifs.
Here is where I found this information.