Another question about Samba and fstab

[Terence Simpson]

Pierre Hansson wrote:
> Hi again everybody, hope you don't mind me "spamming" the list with more
> question, new to this and trying to learn as much as possible, the plan is
> to migrate all the computers from Windows.
>
> Anyway, the following line is from my fstab:
>
> //192.168.1.20/Music /home/phx/music smbfs
> auto,workgroup=X,rwx,credentials=/root/.credentials,uid=1000,umask=000,user
> 0 0
>
> Isn't it supposed to mount at boot or have I forgotten something, because it
> doesn't. I have to "sudo mount -a" then the shares show up as they should.
>
> Thanks for all your help, really appreciate it!
>
> /phx
>
>   
It's probably not working because mounting at boot is ran before the 
network is setup.
As a workaround you can either put the mount command in /etc/rc.local or 
put "mount -a" in /etc/rc.local . The 2nd is probably easiest.

Terence