Mounting external network attached storage

[Tim Penhey]

On Sunday 04 June 2006 17:04, Christopher Beynon wrote:
> You have to disable linux extensions. You can't do that on the server side
> (maxtor NAS), so have to do it on the client side.
>
> You should use these commands, before you mounted the samba shares. You
> could try the following:
> 1. Delete or uncomment the line which mounts the samba share in fstab
> 2. Reboot
> 3. /sbin/modprobe cifs
> echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
> mount samba share

Thanks, that fixed it.

Now how to get it to do that on boot automatically...

Perhaps someone could explain the following:

-rwxrwSrwt  1 tim  tim        0 2006-06-03 16:35 test2

What is the S in the group execute or the t in the all execute bits?

Thanks
Tim