Hello. I am new to perl and have been trying to write a script that will ease the tention of mounting a windows share from my linux box. I also wrote this script because since you give the password as an argument to the mount command it is echoed in plain text on the console. Therefore, I came up with this, what is in it's present state, useless script. The error I get when I try to use it is "Could not resolve mount point /mnt/win", where /mnt/win is obviously the mount point. When I use the command on the console all is well. Anyway, here is the code. Any help at all will be very helpful, me being the newb that I am.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Enter the hostname of the computer: ";
$hostname = <stdin>;
print "Enter the sharname you wish to mount: ";
$share = <stdin>;
print "Enter a valid username: ";
$username = <stdin>;
print "Enter the password:";
system "stty -echo";
$password = <stdin>;
system "stty echo";
print "\nSpecify a mount point?: ";
$mntpoint = <stdin>;
$options = "username=$username,password=$password";
system("mount", "-t", "smbfs", "-o", "$options", "//$hostname/$share",
+ "$mntpoint");

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In reply to Mounting windows shares from Linux by digitalx

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