On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 15:21, Matthew Carr wrote: > 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.
The question is - why is it hanging... is it waiting for a password? Whats the remote machine's OS? If its *nix then go for nfs rather than smb. Speaking of variants, is your RH box using smbfs or cifs ? smbfs is far more mature, cifs is aimed at the most recent MS offerings. Can you add noauto to the options field in /etc/fstab to stop the share from mounting automatically, then try and make it freeze by mounting at the command line? Here's a line from my linux box using smbfs. Note the "guest" keyword, to not ask for a username/password //pants/public_html /public_html smbfs guest 0 0 g'luck!
