How to specify a password in fstab for smb share mounting

[Jasen]

The title is pretty self explainatory. FreeBSD 4.7. I entered a windows share to be automounted in fstab, but want to have it enter the password without prompting.
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[sleipnir214]

A line in fstab reading:

//<servername>/<sharename> <mount point> smbfs username=foo,password=bar 0 0

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[Jasen]

hrmm... well that didn't work. I get no errors, but it just doesn't mount the filesystem.
For now, I'm working around it by using a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and specifying the pass in ~/.nsmbrc, but I'd rather not do that.
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[Annihilannic]

If you test it using the same options from the command line, such as mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //server/share /mntpoint does it work... or give you any errors? Annihilannic.

 

[Jasen]

It's the oddest thing, I get no errors from that either. It looks like it worked, but if I ls the newly mounted folder it's empty. If I use mount_smbfs it does work. Strange.
Would it make a difference that I'm mounting this share as /var/ftp/pub? This computer is the FTP server, but the content is actually located on the other win2k server.

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[Annihilannic]

On a Linux system of mine I need to have /sbin/mount.smbfs (a symlink to /usr/local/samba/bin/smbmount) for mount -t smbfs to work. Annihilannic.