<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbmount</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbmount.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbmount — mount an smbfs filesystem</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbmount</code> {service} {mount-point} [-o options]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259314"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><code class="literal">smbmount</code> mounts a Linux SMB filesystem. It is usually invoked as <code class="literal">mount.smbfs</code> by the <a href="mount.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mount</span>(8)</span></a> command when using the "-t smbfs" option. This command only works in Linux, and the kernel must support the smbfs filesystem.</p><p>WARNING: <code class="literal">smbmount</code> is deprecated and not maintained any longer. <code class="literal">mount.cifs</code> (mount -t cifs) should be used instead of <code class="literal">smbmount</code>.</p><p>Options to <code class="literal">smbmount</code> are specified as a comma-separated list of key=value pairs. It is possible to send options other than those listed here, assuming that smbfs supports them. If you get mount failures, check your kernel log for errors on unknown options.</p><p><code class="literal">smbmount</code> is a daemon. After mounting it keeps running until the mounted smbfs is umounted. It will log things that happen when in daemon mode using the "machine name" smbmount, so typically this output will end up in <code class="filename">log.smbmount</code>. The <code class="literal"> smbmount</code> process may also be called mount.smbfs.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p> <code class="literal">smbmount</code> calls <a href="smbmnt.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbmnt</span>(8)</span></a> to do the actual mount. You must make sure that <code class="literal">smbmnt</code> is in the path so that it can be found. </p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259386"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">username=<arg></span></dt><dd><p> specifies the username to connect as. If this is not given, then the environment variable <code class="envar"> USER</code> is used. This option can also take the form "user%password" or "user/workgroup" or "user/workgroup%password" to allow the password and workgroup to be specified as part of the username. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">password=<arg></span></dt><dd><p> specifies the SMB password. If this option is not given then the environment variable <code class="literal">PASSWD</code> is used. If it can find no password <code class="literal">smbmount</code> will prompt for a password, unless the guest option is given. </p><p> Note that passwords which contain the argument delimiter character (i.e. a comma ',') will failed to be parsed correctly on the command line. However, the same password defined in the PASSWD environment variable or a credentials file (see below) will be read correctly. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">credentials=<filename></span></dt><dd><p>specifies a file that contains a username and/or password. The format of the file is: </p><pre class="programlisting"> username = <value> password = <value> </pre><p>This is preferred over having passwords in plaintext in a shared file, such as <code class="filename">/etc/fstab</code>. Be sure to protect any credentials file properly. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">krb</span></dt><dd><p>Use kerberos (Active Directory). </p></dd><dt><span class="term">netbiosname=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>sets the source NetBIOS name. It defaults to the local hostname. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">uid=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>sets the uid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It may be specified as either a username or a numeric uid. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">gid=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>sets the gid that will own all files on the mounted filesystem. It may be specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">port=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>sets the remote SMB port number. The default is 445, fallback is 139. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">fmask=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>sets the file mask. This determines the permissions that remote files have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the actual permissions for the files. The default is based on the current umask. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">dmask=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>Sets the directory mask. This determines the permissions that remote directories have in the local filesystem. This is not a umask, but the actual permissions for the directories. The default is based on the current umask. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">debug=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>Sets the debug level. This is useful for tracking down SMB connection problems. A suggested value to start with is 4. If set too high there will be a lot of output, possibly hiding the useful output.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">ip=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>Sets the destination host or IP address. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">workgroup=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>Sets the workgroup on the destination </p></dd><dt><span class="term">sockopt=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>Sets the TCP socket options. See the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#SOCKETOPTIONS" target="_top"><a href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a></a> <em class="parameter"><code>socket options</code></em> option. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">scope=<arg></span></dt><dd><p>Sets the NetBIOS scope </p></dd><dt><span class="term">guest</span></dt><dd><p>Don't prompt for a password </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ro</span></dt><dd><p>mount read-only </p></dd><dt><span class="term">rw</span></dt><dd><p>mount read-write </p></dd><dt><span class="term">iocharset=<arg></span></dt><dd><p> sets the charset used by the Linux side for codepage to charset translations (NLS). Argument should be the name of a charset, like iso8859-1. (Note: only kernel 2.4.0 or later) </p></dd><dt><span class="term">codepage=<arg></span></dt><dd><p> sets the codepage the server uses. See the iocharset option. Example value cp850. (Note: only kernel 2.4.0 or later) </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ttl=<arg></span></dt><dd><p> sets how long a directory listing is cached in milliseconds (also affects visibility of file size and date changes). A higher value means that changes on the server take longer to be noticed but it can give better performance on large directories, especially over long distances. Default is 1000ms but something like 10000ms (10 seconds) is probably more reasonable in many cases. (Note: only kernel 2.4.2 or later) </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300480"></a><h2>ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</h2><p>The variable <code class="envar">USER</code> may contain the username of the person using the client. This information is used only if the protocol level is high enough to support session-level passwords. The variable can be used to set both username and password by using the format username%password.</p><p>The variable <code class="envar">PASSWD</code> may contain the password of the person using the client. This information is used only if the protocol level is high enough to support session-level passwords.</p><p>The variable <code class="envar">PASSWD_FILE</code> may contain the pathname of a file to read the password from. A single line of input is read and used as the password.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300512"></a><h2>OTHER COMMANDS</h2><p> File systems that have been mounted using the <code class="literal">smbmount</code> can be unmounted using the <code class="literal">smbumount</code> or the UNIX system <code class="literal">umount</code> command. </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300541"></a><h2>BUGS</h2><p>Passwords and other options containing , can not be handled. For passwords an alternative way of passing them is in a credentials file or in the PASSWD environment.</p><p>The credentials file does not handle usernames or passwords with leading space.</p><p>One smbfs bug is important enough to mention here, even if it is a bit misplaced:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Mounts sometimes stop working. This is usually caused by smbmount terminating. Since smbfs needs smbmount to reconnect when the server disconnects, the mount will eventually go dead. An umount/mount normally fixes this. At least 2 ways to trigger this bug are known.</p></li></ul></div><p>Note that the typical response to a bug report is suggestion to try the latest version first. So please try doing that first, and always include which versions you use of relevant software when reporting bugs (minimum: samba, kernel, distribution)</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300575"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p>Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt in the linux kernel source tree may contain additional options and information.</p><p>FreeBSD also has a smbfs, but it is not related to smbmount</p><p>For Solaris, HP-UX and others you may want to look at <a href="smbsh.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbsh</span>(1)</span></a> or at other solutions, such as Sharity or perhaps replacing the SMB server with a NFS server.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300602"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Michael H. Warfield and others.</p><p>The current maintainer of smbfs and the userspace tools <code class="literal">smbmount</code>, <code class="literal">smbumount</code>, and <code class="literal">smbmnt</code> is <a href="mailto:urban@teststation.com" target="_top">Urban Widmark</a>. The <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org" target="_top">SAMBA Mailing list</a> is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs. </p><p>The conversion of this manpage for Samba 2.2 was performed by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>