Simon Roberts wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to configure a friend's laptop (OpenSuSE 11.1/Gnome) to auto mount a windoze share.

I have a line in the /etc/fstab file like this:

//192.168.2.3/Export /home/user/mnt cifs user=user,password=secret,uid=user,soft 0 0

Now, this works just fine and dandy if I issue a call to "sudo mount -all" but I'd like to find a way to have the system create the mount automatically as soon as it determines that it is able. I had hoped that the "soft" element in the options might persuade it to do something on those lines, but no luck.

Anyway, any suggestions how I should do that?

Also, I've noticed that the mount takes quite a time to start up (and using smbclient with heavy debug enabled, I noticed that the system was trying all kinds of things before it finally settled on a way to connect successfully) Any suggestions how I tune it to try only the "successful" approach?

TIA Simon

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Simon, I just use a bash script to mount the shares. I create a script for each machine I want to mount and then for a collection of machines, I just create another small script that calls for the mount of all machines in one location like home or office, etc. Note the OPTS below just allows you to separate the credentials from the script to prevent disclosure of passwords, etc. The following is what I use to mount 3 shares from one machine on my laptop. I use smbclient to test for the availability of the share before calling mount.cifs: 22:17 alchemy:~> cat bin/mount_nirvana #!/bin/bash # . /home/david/linux/scripts/include/general.inc # check_root SERVER="//nirvana" if smbclient -U% -L${SERVER} >/dev/null 2>&1; then OPTS=$(cat /home/david/bin/mntops_dcr) SHARE="/config" MPOINT="/mnt/nirvana-cfg" if mount | grep -q "on ${MPOINT} type"; then echo "${MPOINT} already mounted" else if [[ ! -d ${MPOINT} ]]; then sudo mkdir -p ${MPOINT} >/dev/null 2>&1 fi sudo mount.cifs ${SERVER}${SHARE} ${MPOINT} ${OPTS} fi SHARE="/samba" MPOINT="/mnt/nirvana" if mount | grep -q "on ${MPOINT} type"; then echo "${MPOINT} already mounted" else if [[ ! -d ${MPOINT} ]]; then sudo mkdir -p ${MPOINT} >/dev/null 2>&1 fi sudo mount.cifs ${SERVER}${SHARE} ${MPOINT} ${OPTS} fi SHARE="/david" MPOINT="/mnt/nirvana-david" if mount | grep -q "on ${MPOINT} type"; then echo "${MPOINT} already mounted" else if [[ ! -d ${MPOINT} ]]; then sudo mkdir -p ${MPOINT} >/dev/null 2>&1 fi sudo mount.cifs ${SERVER}${SHARE} ${MPOINT} ${OPTS} fi exit 0 fi -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org