.TH "smbmount " "1" "25 September 1999" "Samba" "SAMBA" 
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.SH "NAME" 
smbmount \- mount an SMB filesystem
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.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
\fBsmbmount\fP service mountpoint [ -o options ]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
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smbmount mounts a SMB filesystem\&. It is usually invoked as mount\&.smb
from the mount(8) command when using the "-t smb" option\&. The kernel
must support the smbfs filesystem\&.
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Options to smbmount are specified as a comma separated list of
key=value pairs\&. 
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NOTE: smbmount calls smbmnt to do the actual mount\&. You must make sure
that smbmnt is in the path so that it can be found\&.
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.IP "\fBusername=<arg>\fP" 
specifies the username to connect as\&. If this is
not given then the environment variable USER 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\&.
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.IP "\fBpassword=<arg>\fP" 
specifies the SMB password\&. If not given then
smbmount will prompt for a passeword, unless the guest option is
given\&.
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.IP "\fBnetbiosname=<arg>\fP" 
sets the source NetBIOS name\&. It defaults to
the local hostname\&.
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.IP "\fBuid=<arg>\fP" 
sets the uid that files will be mounted as\&. It may be
specified as either a username or a numeric uid\&.
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.IP "\fBgid=<arg>\fP" 
sets the gid that files will be mounted as\&. It may be
specified as either a groupname or a numeric gid\&.
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.IP "\fBport=<arg>\fP" 
sets the remote SMB port number\&. The default is 139\&.
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.IP "\fBfmask=<arg>\fP" 
sets the file mask\&. This deterines the permissions
that remote files have in the local filesystem\&. The default is based
on the current umask\&.
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.IP "\fBdmask=<arg>\fP" 
sets the directory mask\&. This deterines the
permissions that remote directories have in the local filesystem\&. The
default is based on the current umask\&.
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.IP "\fBdebug=<arg>\fP" 
sets the debug level\&. This is useful for tracking
down SMB connection problems\&.
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.IP "\fBip=<arg>\fP" 
sets the destination host or IP address\&.
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.IP "\fBworkgroup=<arg>\fP" 
sets the workgroup on the destination
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.IP "\fBsockopt=<arg>\fP" 
sets the TCP socket options\&. See the smb\&.conf
"socket options" option\&.
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.IP "\fBscope=<arg>\fP" 
sets the NetBIOS scope
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.IP "\fBguest\fP" 
don\'t prompt for a password
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.IP "\fBro\fP" 
mount read-only
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.IP "\fBrw\fP" 
mount read-write
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.SH "AUTHOR" 
The maintainer of smbfs, smbmnt and smbmount is Andrew Tridgell
\fItridge@samba\&.org\fP