SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[D. R. Evans]

David McGlone said the following at 12/09/2007 05:57 PM :
> On Friday 07 December 2007 12:44:00 pm D. R. Evans wrote:
>> Derek Broughton said the following at 12/07/2007 08:28 AM :
>>> In both cases I would suspect it's because the network isn't up at the
>>> time that the automount tries to occur (or in the first, perhaps the
>>> network is up but nmbd isn't yet).
>> I dunno... I have nfs file systems that are automounted at boot time (using
>> computer names, not IP addresses), and they all work fine.
>>
>> So I suspect there's some other reason.
>>
>> At this point, I'm just glad to be able to access the share on my Windows
>> box once more.
> 
> D.R.,
> 
> Was this problem resolved?
> 

Only with the explicit "mount -a" in the rc.local file. But that's good
enough for me.

Even if nmbd isn't running, the fact that I use the "bg" option should (I
think) cause the system to keep trying until nmbd is up and running -- but
the mount never occurs unless I put the "mount -a" in the rc.local file.

So I'm still unsure why "auto,bg" doesn't work. Just as I'm unsure why one
has to use an IP address instead of a name.

So in other words, thanks to the help the end result is as if it were all
working properly, but behind the scenes it seems like there are things that
aren't quite right. Whether it's just my system that's "not quite right"
for some reason I'm not sure; googling around seems to indicate that both
these problems are quite common, so it appears to be more than just
something a bit wrong somehow with my system.

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