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19-Oct-2008, 07:07 PM #1
Solved: manually editing your /etc/fstab
I have decided to use UBUNTU in my PC box but I'm trying to understand how to install Network drives on it but I don't seem how. Some one told me I have to edit manually /etc/fstab
and is here where I get lost because I'm a newbie in getting in the Terminal/Console way of things.

Help please
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19-Oct-2008, 07:16 PM #2
/etc/fstab is the file that is referenced by init to mount drives automagically on startup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab

This is also in the wrong forum and should be moved to the UNIX\Linux Forum.

A typical SAMBA mount looks like this

Code:
//ntserver/docs /mnt/samba smbfs username=docsadm,password=D1Y4x9sw 0 0
(Attr: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configu...with-etcfstab/)

Note: If you just want to mount a drive when you need it and not every time you use the computer, you don't need to do that with fstab. Just use a regular mount command. Or better yet, the GUI
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