[linux-cifs-client] how to automatically and periodically mount?

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:

> 
> In the morning, we wake the boxes up all together and the windows boxes
> are a bit slower to wake up (dont feed the troll) so that their share
> are not ready when the Linux boxes try to mount the cifs partitions
> (listed in /etc/fstab).
> 

Adding '_netdev' option to /etc/fstab might help. For e.g.

//server/share_name /path_to/mount_point cifs
username=myuser,password=mypassword,_netdev,uid=<myuid>,gid=<mygid> 0 0


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Suresh Jayaraman