lynn wrote:
As I say, the line is fstab is totally ignored during boot. There's an easy workaround but I'd like to know why.
---- Ignored at boot? I.e. if you put it in fstab (or something equiv to what I have), you can type mount /mnt, and it takes the parameters from /etc/fstab? I thought when you said you did the line manually you meant with all params on the command line. But is it the case that your entry in fstab works if you use the mount shorthand with just the directory? That's a very different problem. Are you authenticating against an NT domain controller? Windows? Samba? BTW -- I checked out my params through my man page. The version of man page I had had 'directio' (which no longer works). 'sfu' -- which give a fairly consistent message with what I read can happen when trying to use it -- i.e. the error about 'not a directory' has something to do with the sfu facilities not working right, but no mention of the multiuser param on my manpage -- just wondering what it does... since if you are trying to mount at boot time, just "who" is trying to authenticate to your kerberos server? Doesn't the time on your machine have to have synchronized with the kerberos server's time? I'm wondering if everything is in place for kerberos to do the authentication at boot time. A problem I had in getting mine to mount at boot was making sure the network was active, and bind(named) and samba were both active and ready-to-serve -- since the windows station I was mounting tries to contact a domain login controller (i.e. the server that is coming up...). That also means all the "elections" and samba setup need to be done with so the client can successfully authenticate -- if something isn't quite ready when it tries to authenticate on boot, it would more than likely just stop trying to mount and quit. If it works later from fstab -- but just that you have to type the mount name, I'd bet something isn't coming up in the right order for it to work... Sorry wasn't more help... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org