Fstab and CIFS help

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I’m looking at how to use /etc/fstab to mount a file share at a certain mount point. There is an example fstab file on wikipedia:

device-spec mount-point fs-type options dump pass

LABEL=/ / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 none swap defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Removable media

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

NTFS Windows 7 partition

/dev/sda1 /mnt/Windows ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0,noexec 0 0

Partition shared by Windows and Linux

/dev/sda7 /mnt/shared vfat umask=000 0 0

Mounting tmpfs

tmpfs /mnt/tmpfschk tmpfs size=100m 0 0

Mounting cifs

//cifs_server_name/ashare /store/pingu cifs credentials=/root/smbpass.txt 0 0

Mounting NFS

nfs_server_name:/store /store nfs rw 0 0

Has anyone tried something like this? The article doesn’t explain what the smbpass.txt file should look like. Can anyone walk me through it?

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Well cut 'n paste kind of goobered the formatting. Let me try a snip:

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Read man mount.cifs

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credentials=filename|cred=filename
specifies a file that contains a username and/or password and optionally the name of the workgroup. The format of the file is:

             username=value
             password=value
             domain=value