Mount disk on remote machine using

[rjvencken]

(machines A and B both 10.04)
First /dev/sda1 is mounted in /media/big on machine A through fstab
Then it's shared through "Sharing options" which makes it available on machine B: Places > Network > A > Windows Shares > Big
Now I'd rather have it mounted in B on startup. I'm assuming this should be an entry in fstab but I can't find a decent example.

Putting this line in /etc/fstab:
//192.168.2.1/media/big /media/scratch cifs user=admin01,password=***********
Then:
sudo mount -a
Gives me:
mount: //192.168.2.1/media/big is not a valid block device

[redmk2]

(machines A and B both 10.04)
First /dev/sda1 is mounted in /media/big on machine A through fstab
Then it's shared through "Sharing options" which makes it available on machine B: Places > Network > A > Windows Shares > Big
Now I'd rather have it mounted in B on startup. I'm assuming this should be an entry in fstab but I can't find a decent example.

Putting this line in /etc/fstab:
//192.168.2.1/media/big /media/scratch cifs user=admin01,password=***********
Then:
sudo mount -a
Gives me:
mount: //192.168.2.1/media/big is not a valid block device

Since you are mounting the share remotely; the format for all smb (cifs) resources is //ip_address/SHARE_NAME. Use the share name not the /path to the share. The path is only relevant to the local host OS.

[rjvencken]

Since you are mounting the share remotely; the format for all smb (cifs) resources is //ip_address/SHARE_NAME. Use the share name not the /path to the share. The path is only relevant to the local host OS.

Yes!! It's working. Thank you!