Mounting a Samab share at boot time

[Murray Taylor]

correct..
fstab is noauto for the smbfs mounts


On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 11:34, stan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:11:03AM +0000, Murray Taylor wrote:
> > I believe that the method mentioned here is the appropriate way.
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > # $Id: smbfs.sh.sample,v 1.3 2001/01/13 04:50:36 bp Exp $
> > #
> > # Location: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smbfs.sh
> > #
> > # Simple script to mount smbfs file systems at startup.
> > # It assumes that all mount points described in fstab file and password
> > # entries listed in /root/.nsmbrc file. See mount_smbfs(8) for details.
> > #
> >  
> > mount="/sbin/mount -o -N"
> > umount=/sbin/umount
> > HOME=/root; export HOME
> > vols=`awk -- '/^\/.*[[:space:]]+smbfs[[:space:]]+/ { print $2 }'
> > /etc/fstab`
> >  
> > case "$1" in
> > start)
> >         echo -n "smbfs: "
> >         for vol in ${vols}; do
> >                 $mount $vol
> >                 echo -n "$vol "
> >         done
> >         ;;
> > stop)
> >         echo -n "unmounting smbfs mount points: "
> >         for vol in ${vols}; do
> >                 $umount $vol
> >                 echo -n "$vol "
> >         done
> >         ;;
> > *)
> >         echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
> >         exit 64
> > esac
> >  
> > echo "Done"
> > 
> 
> Would this assume that you had the "noauto" paramter for the smbfs
> partitions in /etc/fstab? Else earlier scripts would try to mount them, I
> beleive, and fail.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > It seems to me that the reason for this is that the ufs kernel
> > 'knowledge' allows the fstab mounts for the ufs slices to progress but
> > perhaps the smbfs module is not yet loaded, so the smb mounts go
> > pearshaped in auto mode.
> 
> I've solved that part of the problem, by hvaing the smbfs module loaded by
> using /boot/loader.conf. Howeverm that just gets me to the next problem.
> An attempt is made to mount all filesystems not marked as "noauto" _before_
> networking is brought up, Thus my problem
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 20:44, Rus Foster wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > > Here is what I'm trying to do. I want to mount a Samba share from a remote
> > > > machine on boot up. Presently I have the appropriate entry in /etc/fsatb,
> > > > such that I can mount the share _once I am in multiuser_. I have figured
> > > > out how to get the smbfs kernel module loaded at boot time, using
> > > > /boot/loader.conf.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > A workaround I can think of is set the noauto option in /etc/fstab then in
> > > /etc/rc.local put mount /samba/shre
> > > 
> > > HTH
> > > 
> > > RGds
> > > 
> > > Rus Foster
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