Hi,
My 2 bobs worth - but a long time ago I encountered
a similar problem on a HP-UX box. The problem turned
out that the system was trying to do a "hard" mount
at bootup rather than a "soft" mount. (The correct
terminology escapes me - 'twas a long time ago).
If "hard" mount is specified at bootup, and the remote
host cannot be contacted for whatever reason, then bootup
sequence will take a very long time as each 'mount' attempt
in fstab file has to fail with timeout. With a "soft"
mount, the actual "mount" happens when the specified
mount point is first attempted to be read.
Check to see that the hosts in question can be reached
from each other, hostnames resolved etc.
I am not too certain if there is similar concept in Linux,
although I have setup my slackware boxes for nfs mounts.
Good luck.
Regards,
Rajnish
::>-----Original Message-----
::>From: mick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
::>Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 7:14 PM
::>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
::>Subject: [SLUG] network problem
::>
::>
::>Hi everyone,
::>
::>As briefly as possible. I have smbfs mount directives in my
::>/etc/fstab
::>directory and they do work. The mount points are under the
::>/mnt directory.
::>
::>The problem is that there is a LOOONNNGGGGGGG pause during
::>the boot process,
::>so long infact that I keep finding myself punching the
::>[edit] key to 'help'
::>it along.
::>
::>it then says, mount success = 0 and then mounts two of the
::>three points I have
::>defined, as far as I can tell it varies in success with each mount...
::>
::>Here's the added lines of my fstab ... editted.
::>
::>/server/micellanous /mnt/micellanous smbfs defaults 0 0
::>/server/music /mnt/music smbfs defualts 0 0
::>/server/programs /mnt/programs smbfs defaults 0 0
::>
::>okay ... is there anyway to make this run in the background
::>during the boot
::>process so I can get rid od the Loonngg wait? Is there
::>anyway to get it
::>mount all points all the time.
::>
::>My server is an esmith 5.0 box with shared ibays. Works
::>well with windows
::>hence the samba mounts. I will try NFS mounts, but I don't
::>know if that will
::>work as there is no /etc/import/export entries on the server.
::>
::>
::>thanks
::>
::>Mick
::>
::>
::>
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