Hi, run into a problem mounting a network drive . . .
I am successfully mounting a desktop hard drive with:
smbmount //celeron/n /mnt/ndrive -o credentials=/home/roger/.smbpasswd
which works fine. So I've added a line to fstab like this:
\\celeron\n /mnt/ndrive smbfs
credentials=/home/roger/.smbpasswd,gid=500 0 0
and that works fine.
The problem arises when I try to do the same thing with a drive on my
laptop.
smbmount //rnslaptop/u /mnt/udrive -o credentials=/home/roger/.smbpasswd
works ok and I can browse the drive. But when I add this to fstab:
\\rnslaptop\u /mnt/udrive smbfs
credentials=/home/roger/.smbpasswd,gid=500 0 0
and then reboot the machine, it will hang when getting to the line
"mounting smb filesystems" and the only way back in (that I know about)
is to enter interactive mode and choose N to all lines that (might) have
anything to do with filesystems. When I then remove the offending line
it's all OK again and I can boot normally.
I am only guessing about what the problem is here. Is this something
that can't, or shouldn't, be done with a laptop? Or do I need to modify
that line in fstab? Or something else altogether?
Roger
