Simon Reap wrote:
> On 21/02/2010 11:00, Rob Malpass wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Need some advice about how to automatically mount a nas at bootup on
>> jaunty. The googling I’ve done [1] suggests that the easiest way to
>> do this is to edit /etc/fstab which I’ve done.
>>
>> However on reboot, I find that the directory is not mounted and I
>> also find myself exposing another gap in my knowledge.
>>
>
> I have lines in /etc/fstab such as:
>
> //192.168.0.1/disk /mnt/mynas cifs
> rw,username=me,password=secret,_netdev,uid=me,gid=me 1 3
>
> where my userid is "me". This mounts the disk using my credentials
> (username= and password= fields), treats the owner and group of any
> files there as "me" (the gid= field), and only mounts the disk when
> the network is running (the _netdev field). An alternative to having
> userid and password here is to use a credentials file, e.g. replace
> "username=me,password=secret" with "credentials=/etc/cred", and have a
> file called /etc/cred, readable only by root, with (here)
> username=me
> password=secret
> if you need a domain logon, set the username entry to
> username=mydomain\me
>
> Simon
>
Sorry if this has been said before but could you not use autofs
(
http://www.greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html) ??
I use it for mounting firewire & usb drives that we use for backups.
Brian
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