problems with smbmount in /etc/fstab

[Derek Broughton]

Luca Ferrari wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 Marius Gedminas's cat, walking on the
> keyboard, wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:55:31PM +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote:
>> > I'm using ubuntu 7.1
>>
>> I assume you mean Ubuntu 7.10.
> 
> What's the difference?
> 
>> This appears to be a bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/46516
>> Network filesystems are not automatically mounted on boot.
> 
> Thanks, but the bug seems to be reported of 2006, so I believe it has been
> fixed. 

Not unless it's actually marked "Fixed"

> Moreover, it refers to NFS, not SMB, so I guess my problem is 
> different.

Why?  SMB and NFS mounts are performed in the same script at boot time
(obviously, while non-network mounts can be done early in the boot process,
network mounts have to be deferred until the network's up).
-- 
derek