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thanks as always

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I guess I should have clarified a little bit from the start but my intentions are to mount the scripts at boot so it appears that really the best options is to add your mount to /etc/fstab. If you wanted to add the mount when you run a terminal, then you could call a script from the ~/.bashrc. Just wanted to add this comment to the forum in case other people are interested:

I could create a scripts that mounts the windows share:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
mount -t cifs //rscserv01/testuser/testuser\ backups -o credentials=/home/testuser/.smbcredentials /media/testmount
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then call the script from ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile.d so that when I login via a terminal or ssh, it would automatically mount the windows share.

Not unless you're logging in as root, no.

I repeat that fstab may not be the best option to make it automatic because, if your NFS mounts don't work on boot, your system will fail to boot, the sort of reason your admin didn't want you modifying /etc/fstab.

Making them 'user' mounts then having something else mount them later won't prevent the system from booting. Putting them in crontab like I suggested would work -- when cron starts, that line would run and would mount the filesystems...