/dev/hda5            /scr                 auto       noauto,user           0 0
/dev/hda2            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0
......
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
//itsont05/data
/shares/data_g smbfs
credentials=/root/.credentials 
0 
0
This works fine unless the Windows file share uses non standard characters. In 
contrast to UNIX like operating systems, Windows allows you to use space 
characters or even German umlauts in the names of file shares. You may run 
into problems in the case where the Windows file shares contain special 
characters. For example, the /etc/fstab file uses the space character as a 
delimiter, so if a share contains a space, it will take the following string as a 
mount point. So, while mounting the  project data  file share, the mount 
command complains about several errors in the fstab file, as it tries to use data 
as a mount point.
Tip:
 When mounting Windows file shares in a Linux file system, it is very 
reasonable to check the names of the shares for special characters. 
Renaming them UNIX compliant can save a lot of time and annoyance.
Thus we had to use another way of mounting the file share, and we decided to 
extend the /etc/rc.local file with the corresponding 
smbmount
 commands.
Modifications to rc.local are shown in Example 6 8.
Example 6 8   Extended rc.local file
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don t
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
#mounting windows file shares
smbmount //itsont05/data /shares/data_g  o credentials=/root/.credentials,
gid=ITSOAUSNT+Domain\ Users,dmask=0775
smbmount //itsont02/"project data" /shares/projectdata_e  o credentials=/root/.credentials,
gid=ITSOAUSNT+Domain\ Users,dmask=0775
If using file shares with special characters here, it is necessary to put them in 
quotation marks, as shown in the last line of the example above. The gid and 
dmask options of the 
smbmount
 command are used to ensure that the 
permissions are set in the right way for the Linux directories in which the shares 
are mounted. If they are left out, users would not have write permissions 
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