I have a share setup using samba which requires username/password combination to access the files kept on it.
The script that needs to access this share is running on a windows server as a scheduled task (as a service account) and therefore there is no interactive session present.
I do not want to add steps to the script to mount the share as a drive letter or access it over a UNC path as this will require putting the username and password for the share in clear text in the script. Not great for security.
Does anyone know of a method of mounting a windows(samba) share permanently for a particular windows user so that scheduled tasks running as that user can access the data without the script having to mount it each time the script runs?
I don't want to remove the user/pass authentication to the share and I don't want to put the user/password in clear text in the script itself.
Thanks,
C
Best Answer
It's not clear to me whet ever this is an option to you, but this is what I do on my Windows machines and Samba-based NAS: