Matt,
I believe your file system type is set wrong in the fstab file. It should be smbfs not cifs James > I'm hoping someone might provide some insight to a problem I'm having > mounting a Win2k3 share at bootup. The general methodology I'm trying to > follow is laid out here: > http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountnetworkfoldersall and works fine for my > kubuntu desktop but I'm failing to replicate on a Trustix server. > > > > First, I'm using Trustix 3.0 and have samba installed but not running. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# uname -a > Linux slimserver.linzbach.local 2.6.14.2-2tr #1 Tue Nov 15 11:02:20 GMT > 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# rpm -qa |grep -i samba > samba-3.0.14a-10tr > samba-common-3.0.14a-10tr > samba-client-3.0.14a-10tr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# rpm -qa | grep -i mount > mount-2.12q-4tr > > > The pertinent line of my /etc/fstab is as follows: > > # mount Win2k3 shares > //192.168.1.20/music /mnt/music cifs > credentials=/root/.cifcredentials,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 0 0 > > > And the relating file is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# ls -alh /root/.cifcredentials > -rw------- 1 root root 34 Nov 15 17:15 /root/.cifcredentials > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/users/matt# cat /root/.cifcredentials > username=someaccount > password=somepasswd > > > The mount point is properly created. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# ls -alh /mnt > total 20K > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Nov 15 16:21 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4.0K Nov 15 15:22 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 2 14:34 cdrom/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 2 14:34 floppy/ > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Nov 15 16:21 music/ > > > When I try to mount the share (via mount -a) I get the following errors. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# mount -a > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.1.20/music, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# dmesg | tail > CIFS VFS: No username specified > CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 > > > mount -a works for me no problems with kubuntu. The /root/.cifcredentials > file has a correct username and password. > > > I can successfully mount the share via the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.20/music /mnt/music -o > username=someacct,password=somepasswd,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 > > As a work around, I made a shell script of the previous command and am > calling it via rc.local so my mount point loads at startup but I'd really > like to get this working via fstab. > > Can anyone provide some insight? Much appreciated. > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > tsl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss > _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
