michaelsanford
Translator, Web Developer
I've got smbd 3.0.5 running on my Slackware 10 machine (which is my new testing server). I connect to it with my Panther iMac.
I've got two issues. Firstly, my samba shares don't auto mount like AFP volumes at login, it prompts me for a password and then only mounts the first one in the list. That, in a word, sucks.
Secondly, the volumes mounted take the name hostname.local(-1,-2) instead of their share name or comment, however it is linked to in the Finder as the last part of the path.
Since the shares get their names based on the mount order, which is not necessarily the same, I can't make a (simple) automated backup script to copy files to my firewire drive.
What would be my best bet: a login script with mount_smbfs ? But then, wouldn't my shares not appear on my desktop (I'm not so hot on the symlink idea) ?
I've got two issues. Firstly, my samba shares don't auto mount like AFP volumes at login, it prompts me for a password and then only mounts the first one in the list. That, in a word, sucks.
Secondly, the volumes mounted take the name hostname.local(-1,-2) instead of their share name or comment, however it is linked to in the Finder as the last part of the path.
Since the shares get their names based on the mount order, which is not necessarily the same, I can't make a (simple) automated backup script to copy files to my firewire drive.
What would be my best bet: a login script with mount_smbfs ? But then, wouldn't my shares not appear on my desktop (I'm not so hot on the symlink idea) ?