Re: fstab (mount), samba, and network startup order

Skip Morrow wrote:
> I cannot add smb mount shares in my fstab because my network doesn't 
> start up until after mount tries to parse /etc/fstab.  I get
> 
> "mount: SMB connection failed" errors on any entry in that file.  Of 
> course, it works fine if I do it manually after everything is started 
> up.  Of course, I could put a command in /etc/profiles or something like 
> that, but why am I having this problem?  Where does it say "mount starts 
> up before/after networking?"

Put the noauto option (like the floppy or cdrom) in /etc/fstab.  You 
could then put a mount command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to mount it just 
before you begin.

You could also look into autofs.  It wouldn't mount until you touched 
(cd, ls, etc.) the directory.

Forrest
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