{"id":409,"date":"2011-03-30T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:17:56","slug":"how-to-mount-a-windows-samba-share-with-freebsd-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/how-to-mount-a-windows-samba-share-with-freebsd-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"How to mount a Windows samba share with FreeBSD automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"

A problem at work the other day was every time our virtual machine cluster went down we had a bunch of virtual FreeBSD<\/a> boxes that had to be manually connected one by one to our windows share to offload reports. I wanted to make this happen automatically on boot since it was always the same window samba share.<\/p>\n

1) You need to add a line to your fstab file located in \/etc\/fstab<\/p>\n

\r\n\/\/USERNAME@SERVER\/Mount_Folder \/blah smbfs rw,noauto 0 0\r\n<\/pre>\n
2) create a file called .nsmbrc located here \/root\/.nsmbrc
\nand add your credentials like the example file states in \/usr\/share\/examples\/smbfs\/dot.nsmbrc (discovered by doing a “man smbfs”)<\/p>\n
\r\n[SERVER]\r\naddr=x.x.x.x\r\n\r\n[SERVER:USERNAME]\r\npassword=xxxx\r\n<\/pre>\n
3) finally we need to create a script that runs this on boot, fortunately someone has already done this on the FreeBSD project
\nthe file is located here: http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/cvsweb.cgi\/src\/contrib\/smbfs\/examples\/smbfs.sh.sample<\/a>.  This file simply parses through your fstab and mounts each one (fairly easy to figure out, especially if you know awk<\/a>)<\/p>\n
you need to put the file in \/usr\/local\/etc\/rc.d\/ and give the file executable permissions<\/p>\n
here is the code<\/p>\n
\r\n#!\/bin\/sh\r\n#\r\n# $Id: smbfs.sh.sample,v 1.3 2001\/01\/13 04:50:36 bp Exp $\r\n#\r\n# Location: \/usr\/local\/etc\/rc.d\/smbfs.sh\r\n#\r\n# Simple script to mount smbfs file systems at startup.\r\n# It assumes that all mount points described in fstab file and password\r\n# entries listed in \/root\/.nsmbrc file. See mount_smbfs(8) for details.\r\n#\r\n\r\nmount="\/sbin\/mount -o -N"\r\numount=\/sbin\/umount\r\nHOME=\/root; export HOME\r\nvols=`awk -- '\/^\\\/.*[[:space:]]+smbfs[[:space:]]+\/ { print $2 }' \/etc\/fstab`\r\n\r\ncase "$1" in\r\nstart)\r\n\techo -n "smbfs: "\r\n\tfor vol in ${vols}; do\r\n\t\t$mount $vol\r\n\t\techo -n "$vol "\r\n\tdone\r\n\t;;\r\nstop)\r\n\techo -n "unmounting smbfs mount points: "\r\n\tfor vol in ${vols}; do\r\n\t\t$umount $vol\r\n\t\techo -n "$vol "\r\n\tdone\r\n\t;;\r\n*)\r\n\techo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2\r\n\texit 64\r\nesac\r\n\r\necho "Done"\r\n<\/pre>\n
4) Now when you reboot you should be good to go!<\/p>\n
\r\n#reboot\r\n<\/pre>\n
Notes:
\n1) the SERVER name is entirely dependent on the .nsmbrc file, my server did not have its name in DNS so it was confusing me that it wanted a server name for this config file…I was previously using the IP address of my server and it kept confusing it, I am sure there are other ways to fix this by just using the IP but this was a simple fix.<\/p>\n
2) I read from a couple places that the username had to be capitalized in the .nsmbrc (just like the server), what I found out that the username for samba shares is not case-sensitive so just go ahead and capitalize it (for me it was ADMINISTRATOR versus what I was trying Administrator)<\/p>\n
So basically make sure the SERVER and USERNAME is the .nsmbrc and fstab file match exactly and are both capitalized.  Someone comment if they know another way around this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A problem at work the other day was every time our virtual machine cluster went down we had a bunch of virtual FreeBSD boxes that had to be manually connected one by one to our windows share to offload reports. I wanted to make this happen automatically on boot since it was always the same … <\/p>\n
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