Friday, March 28, 2008, 3:59:56 PM, Edward Kerr wrote:

> I cannot recall who actually gave me this idea, but it did not work!  It
> was the gentleman who was running Ubuntu from a USB stick on a Sony Vaio

It was me.

> I am trying to mount my NAS at boot or log-in.

> the command that works perfectly from the command line is:

> sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.18/data /mnt/mini -o
> username=admin,password=admin,fmask=0777,dmask=0777

> (All one line)

> How do I do this automatically?

> Do I use FSTAB, but if so how?

I would imagine you don't need to sudo, since the init scripts are
run as root. You may also need to supply a full path to the mount
command, since you can't guarantee what paths are setup in the boot
environment. Finally you need to make sure your network is started
(which if you're running it from the end of rc.local it should be,
but who knows).

Doing this from fstab would be a more elegant solution, but unless
automount is intelligent enough to do this AFTER your network starts
then you may still have an issue. I know most(all?) distros do mounts
well before the network is brought up, but maybe it'll delay network
based mount points until later. This all said, Google seems to offer
some confidence that this technique should work. This in particular
looks interesting..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=103274

HTH.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andy


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