I think it's largely ignored because as people have suggested, if you use cifs instead of smbfs it works, without stalling.
>From what I know cifs is the replacement for smbfs. (from man mount.cifs: The CIFS protocol is the successor to the SMB protocol) It's installed when you install smbfs. I had to start using it trying to get Ubuntu to connect to a 2003AD server, and I noticed how much better it seems to work. No more hang on boot, no more hanging if the share goes offline (it seamlessly drops and picks up the remote share as it goes up and down) my fstab: //192.168.1.1/share /media/data cifs file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser,credentials=/etc/fstab_smb_credentials 0 0 fstab_smb_credentials: username=user% password=password I've had absolutely no problems since I started using it (and I auto mount shares with it on at least half a dozen systems) changes from using smbfs were: changing smbsf to cifs (obviously) replacing dmask=777,fmask=777 with file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 and stripping the whitespace from the credentials file (cifs would choke on it) I'd seen it mentioned here, but never knew anything about it until I had to research 2003AD stuff. I'd been using smbfs because (like so many people) I'd started my Linux learning at ubuntuguide.org who still say to use smbfs While I agree smbfs requires fixing, at least from the perspective of compatibility - I think it's a documentation problem, users need to know to use cifs instead of smbfs On 10/22/06, Dennis Heinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sucks. Why does nobody take care of it? It just can't be that an > operating system aiming at taking market share away from Microsoft (Bug > #1) COMPLETELY STALLS if a network share is unavailable. > > -- > auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot > https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874 > -- O)-c -- auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
