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Pol Hallen
Asked: 2015-11-15 03:58:30 +0800 CST

gfvs-mount share password-protected

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I want to mount using gfvs-mount samba remote server with password-protected, so I do:

gfvs-mount smb://ip/share

but I need to insert everytime username, I'd like avoid username but have only prompted password

linux

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can do this:

    gvfs-mount smb://IP\;username@IP/share

    only password will be prompted

    gvfs-mount -l

    to show mounted share

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  2. I am using the same solution as watchmansky but removed the IP\; part:

    gvfs-mount smb://username@host/share
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  3. I would create a credentials file for the user in the home directory:

    **Filename: ~/.gvfs_credentials**
<username>
<domain name>
<password>

    And then add a 'gvfs-mount' command to my .profile script for each share for gvfs to mount, giving it the credentials we saved earlier:

    **Filename: ~/.profile**
gvfs-mount smb://<servername>/<sharename> < .gvfs_credentials

    The benefit is you can just change the password in the .gvfs_credentials file.

    The bad side is that the password is saved as unencrypted plaintext.

    Hope this helps someone :)

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