> Gidday, > > Sometimes, during the rare reboots I do on my RH9 box, the startup > process hangs at the 'mounting SMB filesystems' part. Is there any way > of setting a timout in the FSTAB file (or anywhere else) so it only > tries to mount an SMB share for a few seconds? Or is there a way of > 'escaping' this part during boot if it hangs? The only fix I have found > (i.e. Zane told me) so far is to boot off a floppy, and comment out all > the SMB mount lines in my FSTAB file, then remount once the system has > booted correctly.
I got this too. A (kludgey) way is to add the "noauto" option to the line in /etc/fstab. This makes it skip the mount in the initial mountings. (It's kludgey because there is no "noauto" option for smb mounts, so it will complain but work anyway). Then put a mount /mnt/mountpoint & in something like /etc/rc.d/rc.local (the & may not be necessary, but it helped things along for me) Hope that helps Daniel
