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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a (hopefully) simple question about mounting a shared
drive on a Windows machine under Linux (Red Hat release 9).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In the fstab file, should I list the Windows drives to be
mounted by their windows way of naming (<a href="file:///\\computer_name\share_name">\\computer_name\share_name</a>)
or the Linux way of naming (//computer_name/share_name)? I’m
currently using the windows naming format. Could that be causing problems
with the mounting of the drives?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The reason I’m asking is that we have a drive that was
mounting correctly for quite some time (over a year). Now we’ve
added mounting of another drive and it sometimes hangs up on a reboot at the
point of mounting the smb drives (as far as I can tell). Once mounted,
both drives work. The new drive was added to fstab immediately after the
original drive. (I just copied and modified the line from the working drive.)
They are the last two lines in the file. The two lines are:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>\\ir01\images$ /mnt/ir smbfs password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=adminname/ourdomain
0 0</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="file:///\\e-mail-receiver\dropfax$">\\e-mail-receiver\dropfax$</a> /mnt/dropfax smbfs password=adminpassword,fmask=777,uid=563,dmask=777,gid=500,username=adminname/ourdomain
0 0</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks for any ideas you might have.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Larry R. Pint</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:larry.pint@ntuminc.com">larry.pint@ntuminc.com</a></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>952-229-3451</span></font></p>
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