Mounting Remote Share @ Boot

[Paul Gear]

Dave Hall wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:59 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>   
>> Simon Ives wrote:
>>     
>>> I've got a NFS share on my file server that I mount at boot on my client
>>> computers.  The share mounts without issue, except on the clients that
>>> connect to the network via a wireless connection.  On these computers I have
>>> to execute "sudo mount -a" once the network's connected to get the share to
>>> mount.  Is there an option to get the share to mount after the network's up?
>>>       
>> In my opinion, autofs is a better way to do that.
>>     
>
> autofs is pretty old skool by today's standards.
>   
It may have been around for a while, but that doesn't mean it's not the
best tool for the job.  :-)  I use it because it works well, and because
i don't have to worry about the connection being broken next time i come
to use it, which has historically been a problem with persistent NFS mounts.

Paul

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