Automount SMB Share on OpenSUSE: How I got SqueezeCenter to read from a SMB share

Here are the steps:

- create the folder which you will use to mount the SMB share, e.g.:

mkdir /media/share

- edit /etc/fstab:

//192.168.1.10/smbshare /media/share cifs username=user,pass=sEcrEt 0 0

- in my case, the share wouldn’t automount so I had to create a startup script to mount the drive (/etc/init.d/mount.smb):

#!/bin/sh
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mount.smb
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: squeezecenter
# Default-Start: 2 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Description: mount the SMB share
### END INIT INFO

case “$1″ in
start)
echo -n “Mounting SMB share “
mount /media/maggie_media
;;
stop)
echo -n “No need to unmount share “
;;
*)
echo “Usage: $0 {start|stop}”
exit 1
;;
esac
rc_exit

- Now we must make the init script part of the bootup process:

insserv /etc/init.d/mount.smb

ln -s /etc/init.d/mount.smb /sbin/rcmount.smb

That’s it – reboot to test!