Ubuntu failed to mount windows share

[_Gentoo_Nile_]

I have a small network of 4 computers at home, two laptops and two desktop, both the laptops have windows vista ultimate, one desktop has Windows XP and other with ubuntu. When i boot my computers one morning, Ubuntu failed to mount windows share and from then it would not mount windows share automatically, but i have to manually mount them... Any solution to this? Please help guys, mounting all the computers manually is very tiresome...

[KuNaLBuntU]

Hey, i too have the sample problem. Till yesterday everything was working perfectly, i do not not what suddenly went wrong, the samba shares refuse to mount automatically, it will mount fine, but it was configured to mount shares during startup, but it doesn't do it anymore... Any help?

[Solomon]

You can go to system prefrence and configure the startup script again... Here is the code :

If your windows shares are password protected :

sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o username=winusername,password=winpassword,iocharset=utf8

If your windows shares are not password protected :

sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o guest,rw,iocharset=utf8

Hope this help...

[_Gentoo_Nile_]

Thanks, solomon, i think i will have to try what you said and will add the windows shares to mount at setup again. Will have to add all the shres, but will try with one first... Thanks!