>I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like >this: > > //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE /mountpoint smbfs rw 0 0 > >The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up >before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then >hangs permanently because it cannot get the SMB share points mounted. >This recently happened after a catastrophic power outage that cooked >the share info on "WINSERVER". Even after it came up, it was no longer >serving the proper shares and the FBSD machine could never find the >SMB shares and thus hung permanently. > >The SMB mounts are not essential for systems operations. Is there a >way to tell the FBSD to try and mount SMB, but keep going and complete >the boot if it cannot?
A bit of an ugly hack, but have you considered attempting to mount the share via an automatic script after the system has finished booting? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
