Re: Automounting smbfs?
- Original Message - From: "Kirk Strauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Automounting smbfs? On Friday 08 April 2005 14:12, you wrote: > Kirk, here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup > folder prior to having a separate nfs mount to put them. > > Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example) [...] Out of curiosity, why would you do that instead of just letting FreeBSD mount it automatically (which is what I do now)? The goal I'm trying to accomplish is pushing the same map to multiple machines (eg via LDAP). I never bothered to do that with my NFS mounts, but I'm using the addition of the SMB shares as an excuse to rework the system before it grows much more. -- Kirk Strauser In my experience, automounting it via fstab doesn't always work correctly. Some folks have great success with it where others don't. For example, I can remove the noauto and with the very same config files and 5 out of 10 times the mount won't take on system startup. When I remove the noauto and cron it for @reboot, it works just fine. I've no idea why but it works for me. -- Micheal Patterson Senior Communications Systems Engineer 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Automounting smbfs?
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 08 April 2005 14:12, you wrote: Kirk, here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup folder prior to having a seperate nfs mount to put them. Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example) [...] Out of curiosity, why would you do that instead of just letting FreeBSD mount it automatically (which is what I do now)? I'm assuming that it's a minor league paranoid measure to ensure that, in the event the windows host(s) are unavailable, you don't hang up the boot process somehow. That's what it is for *me*, anyhow. (I don't even list smbfs shares in /etc/fstab) AFAIK, it would just delay booting a bit, but IANAE. That's why I do it from cron, anyway; that, and because I learned about cron long before I learned about rc scripts... The goal I'm trying to accomplish is pushing the same map to multiple machines (eg via LDAP). I never bothered to do that with my NFS mounts, but I'm using the addition of the SMB shares as an excuse to rework the system before it grows much more. I'm no help there, I'm afraid. I do have scripts now that do my post-install configuration, and might be tweaked to "push out" smbfs mounts (via cron, as mentioned above), but that's about it...nothing so complex as LDAP. :) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Automounting smbfs?
On Friday 08 April 2005 14:12, you wrote: > Kirk, here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup > folder prior to having a seperate nfs mount to put them. > > Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example) [...] Out of curiosity, why would you do that instead of just letting FreeBSD mount it automatically (which is what I do now)? The goal I'm trying to accomplish is pushing the same map to multiple machines (eg via LDAP). I never bothered to do that with my NFS mounts, but I'm using the addition of the SMB shares as an excuse to rework the system before it grows much more. -- Kirk Strauser pgpnecNh4aXia.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Automounting smbfs?
- Original Message - From: "Kirk Strauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:52 PM Subject: Automounting smbfs? The built-in amd automounter may work great for NFS, but I increasingly find myself mounting Windows shares and amd doesn't seem to support them. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser Kirk, here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup folder prior to having a seperate nfs mount to put them. Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example) ### SMBFS Mounts # #//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /smbfs noauto,rw,-N,-I= 0 0 Then, in the root crontab, add this: "@reboot//mbfs.sh" Then, in create a file named mbfs.sh and edit it as such: #!/bin/sh echo " " echo " " echo "mounting smbfs slices..." sleep 5 /sbin/mount /backups Please keep in mind, that this method will require the proper share auth info to be in /etc/nsmb.conf, so protect this file as it holds plain text passwords for your windows systems. Then on system restart, after everything else is accessible and running, cron will launch and remount those drives for you. Hope it helps. -- Micheal Patterson Senior Communications Systems Engineer 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Automounting smbfs?
The built-in amd automounter may work great for NFS, but I increasingly find myself mounting Windows shares and amd doesn't seem to support them. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser pgpeoVWZpiZCj.pgp Description: PGP signature
