SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[David McGlone]

On Monday 10 December 2007 8:36:48 am Derek Broughton wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
> > David McGlone said the following at 12/09/2007 05:57 PM :
> >> Was this problem resolved?
> >
> > Only with the explicit "mount -a" in the rc.local file. But that's good
> > enough for me.
> >
> > Even if nmbd isn't running, the fact that I use the "bg" option should (I
> > think) cause the system to keep trying until nmbd is up and running --
> > but the mount never occurs unless I put the "mount -a" in the rc.local
> > file.
> >
> > So I'm still unsure why "auto,bg" doesn't work. Just as I'm unsure why
> > one has to use an IP address instead of a name.
> >
> > So in other words, thanks to the help the end result is as if it were all
> > working properly, but behind the scenes it seems like there are things
> > that aren't quite right. Whether it's just my system that's "not quite
> > right" for some reason I'm not sure; googling around seems to indicate
> > that both these problems are quite common, so it appears to be more than
> > just something a bit wrong somehow with my system.
>
> I think it's something wrong with SMB (not Samba).  My Windows desktop
> rarely connects to all the SMB shares (on other Windows boxes) it's
> supposed to autoconnect to, either.  I can manually connect to them, but
> not automatically.

I just don't understand. All the advise I gave him isn't working for some 
reason. It has me wondering, because the same setup works just fine for me. I 
connect to all my shares on boot by using the "auto" option in fstab. For 
some reason it doesn't work for him. Unless of course I have missed something 
and not fully understood his problem.



-- 
David M.