Mounting smbfs At Boot Time
I have this in my /etc/fstab: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE /localmountsmbfs rw 0 0 This very nicely mounts an smbfs filesystem at boot time. HOWEVER, if SRV happens to not be up at the time FreeBSD boots, FBSD will halt and prompt to go into single user mode thinking that there is a catastrophic problem. I want the mount to occur if possible, and to be retried later if not possible at boot time. But I want this to occur automatically without my having to poke at the machine manually to see to it. 'noauto' was a tempting solution, but it seems not to work the way I'd expect. I added it to the entry, manually unmounted /localmount, and then did a 'mount -a'. The smbmount did not come back. Ideas anyone? -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting smbfs at boot time
On Tue, 05-Nov-2002 at 11:10:59 -0800, Rotaru Razvan wrote: Hello, well when I said ~/.nsmbrc i meant also /root/.nsmbrc. Still i doesn't work for me, but then again my method with the daemon-like startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is unusual. /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf doesn't even work work even with a normal mount_smbfs command with -N. I don't have the machine handy at the moment (I am on holidays) but IIRC, this is what I do: 1. I have the filesystems in /etc/fstab: //user@machine/apps/smbfs/appssmbfs noauto,rw 0 0 2. I have the appropriate entries in /etc/nsmb.conf (NOT in /usr/local) 3. I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which mainly does this /sbin/mount -o -N,-R3,-cl /smbfs/apps It is a bit more complicated here since I have to traverse a firewall and my script also tests the availability of the servers. It also scans /etc/fstab to automatically mount every smbfs in there. However, IMO, the ideal solution would be to teach amd about smbfs but I don't know enough about amd :-( Maybe one day I will have time to dig into this... -Andre Can you tell me how do you mount your shares at boot time? or at least can i see your /etc/fstab file ? Regards, Razvan --- Andrew Brampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a freeBSD newbie, but I found a solution to your problem, I appear to have a /root/.nsmbrc file with passwords in which are used to mount my shares at boot time. But if you can't use this file then try /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf which is a default of some kind. Hope this helps :) Andrew - Original Message - From: Rotaru Razvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: mounting smbfs at boot time Hello, Well here is what i want to ask: I want to mount a smbfs at boot time. Editing /etc/fstab won't do because filesystems are mounted before network initalisation. The noauto option doesn't help (it doesn't mount at boottime, neither on 'mount -a' ; by the way why should anyone enter a filesystem in fstab with the noauto option?!?! doesn't make any sense). Next thing i tried is to make a daemon-like startup script (in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ) that actually doesn't start any daemon, but mounts my partition when called with 'start' parameter and unmounts when called with 'stop' parameter. The problem is i have to call in this script a mount_smbfs command with the -N option (it should not ask for my smb password on boot time). Well with this option mount_smbfs looks in ~/.nsmbrc for a password. Apparently on boot time (when initializing local services) the deamon startup scripta do not run as root (i doubt they run as any user that has a home directory) so there is no way of supplying this .nmbrc file to mount_smbfs. Well for now am i out of ideas. Maybe you have a more simple solution. Thanks anyway for the attention. Razvan __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Win98: useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
mounting smbfs at boot time
Hello, Well here is what i want to ask: I want to mount a smbfs at boot time. Editing /etc/fstab won't do because filesystems are mounted before network initalisation. The noauto option doesn't help (it doesn't mount at boottime, neither on 'mount -a' ; by the way why should anyone enter a filesystem in fstab with the noauto option?!?! doesn't make any sense). Next thing i tried is to make a daemon-like startup script (in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ) that actually doesn't start any daemon, but mounts my partition when called with 'start' parameter and unmounts when called with 'stop' parameter. The problem is i have to call in this script a mount_smbfs command with the -N option (it should not ask for my smb password on boot time). Well with this option mount_smbfs looks in ~/.nsmbrc for a password. Apparently on boot time (when initializing local services) the deamon startup scripta do not run as root (i doubt they run as any user that has a home directory) so there is no way of supplying this .nmbrc file to mount_smbfs. Well for now am i out of ideas. Maybe you have a more simple solution. Thanks anyway for the attention. Razvan __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: mounting smbfs at boot time
Hello, well when I said ~/.nsmbrc i meant also /root/.nsmbrc. Still i doesn't work for me, but then again my method with the daemon-like startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is unusual. /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf doesn't even work work even with a normal mount_smbfs command with -N. Can you tell me how do you mount your shares at boot time? or at least can i see your /etc/fstab file ? Regards, Razvan --- Andrew Brampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a freeBSD newbie, but I found a solution to your problem, I appear to have a /root/.nsmbrc file with passwords in which are used to mount my shares at boot time. But if you can't use this file then try /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf which is a default of some kind. Hope this helps :) Andrew - Original Message - From: Rotaru Razvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: mounting smbfs at boot time Hello, Well here is what i want to ask: I want to mount a smbfs at boot time. Editing /etc/fstab won't do because filesystems are mounted before network initalisation. The noauto option doesn't help (it doesn't mount at boottime, neither on 'mount -a' ; by the way why should anyone enter a filesystem in fstab with the noauto option?!?! doesn't make any sense). Next thing i tried is to make a daemon-like startup script (in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ) that actually doesn't start any daemon, but mounts my partition when called with 'start' parameter and unmounts when called with 'stop' parameter. The problem is i have to call in this script a mount_smbfs command with the -N option (it should not ask for my smb password on boot time). Well with this option mount_smbfs looks in ~/.nsmbrc for a password. Apparently on boot time (when initializing local services) the deamon startup scripta do not run as root (i doubt they run as any user that has a home directory) so there is no way of supplying this .nmbrc file to mount_smbfs. Well for now am i out of ideas. Maybe you have a more simple solution. Thanks anyway for the attention. Razvan __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
