I have been having problems trying to get my samba mounted windows (XP) shares to mount at boot time on my Redhat 8 machine. I have tried changing the start order of things, but it didn't seem to help.
Here is the interesting bits from the boot.log Feb 1 11:17:46 vortex-550 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Feb 1 11:17:46 vortex-550 network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded Feb 1 11:17:49 vortex-550 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded Feb 1 11:17:57 vortex-550 mount: 572: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:17:57 vortex-550 mount: 572: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:17:57 vortex-550 mount: 572: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) Feb 1 11:17:57 vortex-550 mount: SMB connection failed Feb 1 11:17:58 vortex-550 mount: 573: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:17:58 vortex-550 mount: 573: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:17:58 vortex-550 mount: 573: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) Feb 1 11:17:58 vortex-550 mount: SMB connection failed Feb 1 11:17:59 vortex-550 mount: 574: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:17:59 vortex-550 mount: 574: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:17:59 vortex-550 mount: 574: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) Feb 1 11:17:59 vortex-550 mount: SMB connection failed Feb 1 11:18:00 vortex-550 mount: 575: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:18:00 vortex-550 mount: 575: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) Feb 1 11:18:00 vortex-550 mount: 575: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) Feb 1 11:18:00 vortex-550 mount: SMB connection failed Feb 1 11:18:00 vortex-550 netfs: Mounting SMB filesystems: failed Feb 1 11:18:01 vortex-550 netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded Feb 1 11:18:01 vortex-550 autofs: automount startup succeeded Feb 1 11:18:01 vortex-550 sshd: Starting sshd: Feb 1 11:18:01 vortex-550 sshd: succeeded Feb 1 11:18:02 vortex-550 sshd: Feb 1 11:18:02 vortex-550 rc: Starting sshd: succeeded Feb 1 11:18:05 vortex-550 xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded Feb 1 11:18:06 vortex-550 ntpd: succeeded Feb 1 11:18:06 vortex-550 ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded Feb 1 11:18:09 vortex-550 lpd: lpd startup succeeded Here is what happens when I run mount -a after it has finished booting: vortex-550==> ~>mount -a 996: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) 996: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) 1000: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) 1000: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) 1003: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) 1003: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) 1006: session request to 192.168.0.4 failed (Called name not present) 1006: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) vortex-550==> ~> But the mounts do work. I looked into the "Called name not present" message, and it appears that there is a bug somewhere. I don't know if it is in samba, or in the mount code. The bug is that it does not properly deal with ip addresses. This is what part of my fstab looks like: //192.168.0.4/Media /mnt/vortex2533/Media smbfs auto,guest,r //192.168.0.4/Public /mnt/vortex2533/Public smbfs auto,guest,rw //192.168.0.4/MP3s /mnt/vortex2533/MP3s smbfs auto,guest,r When I defined 192.168.0.4 in my host file as a named machine, and then used that name instead of the ip address in the fstab, the messages about "Called name not present" went away. Where should I report this (minor) bug? So now, when I run mount -a, It mounts all the shares with no messages. But in my boot.log, I still get one of these for each attempted mount: Feb 1 11:18:00 vortex-550 mount: 575: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) Can anyone give me a clue why these mounts fail at boot time? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba