Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc

ok. That is easy enough.

travisdh1

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc
ok. That is easy enough.

I'd make another script to unmount the shares when your done with them as well.

#!/bin/bash
umount /mount/point

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

I really like the idea of cred file. That would make things easy.

Instead of autoconfig, I would like a script that I could use for connecting that breaks connection at reboot

You still should dismount the share (in a normal circumstance), but at least the approach @travisdh1 posted won't automount.

JaredBusch

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@JaredBusch Isn't that automounting?

I really like the idea of cred file. That would make things easy.

Instead of autoconfig, I would like a script that I could use for connecting that breaks connection at reboot

Combine the two suggestions.

Don't use fstab, use the mount. But don't prompt for the user/pass, read it from a config file.

DustinB3403

@travisdh1 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc
ok. That is easy enough.
I'd make another script to unmount the shares when your done with them as well.
#!/bin/bash
unmount /mount/point

Might make that one big general dismount for all of the shares you might even use. Rather than a script per SMB server.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc

or domain\username depending on what type of domain you're connecting to.

travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@travisdh1 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@IRJ said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
@JaredBusch said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:
Put your username and password in a text file in your hidden /home/user/.config folder.
Create this file /home/user/.config/smb_creds
With this content
username=SMBUser
password=SMBPassword
Can I store domain there as well?
You'd just enter the username as domain@user iirc
ok. That is easy enough.
I'd make another script to unmount the shares when your done with them as well.
#!/bin/bash
unmount /mount/point
Might make that one big general dismount for all of the shares you might even use. Rather than a script per SMB server.

I don't like unmounting multiple things with a single command. I've been burned by unmounting important things in the past.

DustinB3403

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

I know of no one who changes domain passwords that frequently - thank the maker. EHR passwords - that's another story.

DustinB3403

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

I know of no one who changes domain passwords that frequently - thank the maker. EHR passwords - that's another story.

You know me

travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

That's why I suggested prompting for the password in that sample script.

DustinB3403

@travisdh1 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

That's why I suggested prompting for the password in that sample script.

Would you manually set the username instead though? (because users)

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

I know of no one who changes domain passwords that frequently - thank the maker. EHR passwords - that's another story.

You know me

WTH are you doing that to your users?

travisdh1

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DustinB3403

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

I know of no one who changes domain passwords that frequently - thank the maker. EHR passwords - that's another story.

You know me

WTH are you doing that to your users?

Because they choose to use Apple. . .

DustinB3403

Also the command is umount not unmount atleast on Fedora 29.

travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

Also the command is umount not unmount atleast on Fedora 29.

Typo by me

Emad R

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Gigolo

https://www.unixmen.com/how-to-access-remote-linux-and-windows-shares-with-gigolo/

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

I know of no one who changes domain passwords that frequently - thank the maker. EHR passwords - that's another story.

You know me

WTH are you doing that to your users?

Because they choose to use Apple. . .

what? why would t hat matter?

DustinB3403

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@Dashrender said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for an effective way to quickly access SMB shares from Fedora:

On a side question, how do you guys deal with password changes and SMB shares that get mounted like this? Seems like it would be a pain in the rear to have to go and constantly update several files with new passwords every 90 days or so.

I know of no one who changes domain passwords that frequently - thank the maker. EHR passwords - that's another story.

You know me

WTH are you doing that to your users?

Because they choose to use Apple. . .

what? why would t hat matter?

It's the only reason I can give you, it's above my pay-grade and I figure someone wanted to make the users pay.