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adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

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how to mount samba share only when connected - at boot?

this is my line from fstab:

//MEDIA-CENTER/public /media/Server cifs username=****,password=****,noauto,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

like this, it does not mount on boot, if i remove the noauto option and then it mount's on boot, but when i am with the laptop elsewhere, when that share is not connected, it gives me a nasty error on boot.

is there an option for fstab to auto mount on boot only when connected? like "ignore error"?

chochem

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-02

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Re: how to mount samba share only when connected - at boot?

You could of course convert from using fstab to using the smbnetfs daemon. Of course the 'official' setup will (add daemon to rc.conf) will still give you an error* so you might wish to run it in rc.local or even later, depending on some network test?

* Disclaimer: I only got a headache trying to get the /etc/rc.d/script to work properly so I've resorted to running the daemon manually.

Last edited by chochem (2008-08-21 19:04:19)

adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 143

Re: how to mount samba share only when connected - at boot?

adding the option nofail did the trick for me

Anarion.h

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Registered: 2008-09-05

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Re: how to mount samba share only when connected - at boot?

You can also try using autofs

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