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re-mounting every time I load?

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Asbel

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Wednesday, May 28th 2003, 5:18pm

re-mounting every time I load?

I don't know if this is fixable, but my MP3 drive is on another computer on my local Windows network and while it is VERY easy to mount the drive and browse/play MP3s, I have to do it every time I reboot. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 (just installed it last night, it's my first linux so I'm a gigantic n00b). Is there a way to get the drive to mount automatically so I don't have to set it up each time?

Thanks for any help

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Wednesday, May 28th 2003, 7:03pm

You can specify it in /etc/fstab file. Propably best for you to look this up on google but it could be something similar to (I have never done this myself :shock: )

WindowsMachine mountpoint auto auto,user 0 0

First is the path on windows machine, as you use it when mounting regularly, then there is the mount point. auto says what kind of filesystem it is, you can specify it if you want to. The next auto says to mount this when booting, user means that other than root can mount this.

I'm not 100% fstab expert, but this should hopefully get you going!!
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Wednesday, May 28th 2003, 7:51pm

Ya, if you are using smb (i.e. samba) to connect to a windows share then you will want to add something like this to end of your /etc/fstab (just creat a single new line with this command on it.)

//192.168.1.1/shareddirectory /mnt/mountpoint smb username=yourusername,password=yourpassword 0 0

If you know your mount command it should not be very hard to figure the format in fstab. There is more information in "man fstab".
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