Re: automount samba shares

> Hi all!
> 
> I've been hacking my /etc/fstab trying to get it to automount remote Samba 
> shares from our server. I hope someone can help me with some questions:
> 
> 1. How do you set the default smbfs options? I know you can place
>    options in /etc/fstab, but it seems there are other options
>    being set without my putting them in /etc/fstab. For example,
>    the "noexec" option is set even though I never specified it.
> 
> 2. Won't a simple line in /etc/fstab (without the "noauto" option)
>    suffice to get a share to be mounted upon boot? I know this is
>    SUPPOSED to be the way things work in RH9, but the shares don't
>    get mounted. They do work, however, when I simply issue:
> 
>       mount <mount-point>
> 
>    Any ideas on why this is happening?
> 
> Thanks in advance! God bless!

in RH-derived (probably others) systems, they are [un]mounted by
/etc/init.d/netfs initscript. add your usual smb mount option in 
/etc/fstab and mount it manually by executing:

  /etc/init.d/netfs start

you can automatically mount network fs on reboot by:

  chkconfig --level 345 netfs on

do RTFM :)


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