Automounting smbfs?

[Kevin Kinsey]

Kirk Strauser wrote:

>On Friday 08 April 2005 14:12, you wrote:
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>>Kirk,  here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup
>>folder prior to having a seperate nfs mount to put them.
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>>Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example)
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>Out of curiosity, why would you do that instead of just letting FreeBSD 
>mount it automatically (which is what I do now)?
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I'm assuming that it's a minor league paranoid measure to ensure
that, in the event the windows host(s) are unavailable, you don't
hang up the boot process somehow.  That's what it is for *me*,
anyhow.  (I don't even list smbfs shares in /etc/fstab....)

AFAIK, it would just delay booting a bit, but IANAE.  That's why I do
it from cron, anyway; that, and because I learned about cron long
before I learned about rc scripts...


>The goal I'm trying to accomplish is pushing the same map to multiple 
>machines (eg via LDAP).  I never bothered to do that with my NFS mounts, 
>but I'm using the addition of the SMB shares as an excuse to rework the 
>system before it grows much more.
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I'm no help there, I'm afraid.  I do have scripts now that do my
post-install configuration, and might be tweaked to "push out"
smbfs mounts (via cron, as mentioned above), but that's about
it...nothing so complex as LDAP. :)

Kevin Kinsey