[Samba] Mounting smbfs as guest at boot time

[Joel Hammer]

Hmmm....
I would try to mount it from boot.local or whatever you think is the last
file run during the boot process. Redirect output to a log file.  Just add
1>logfile 2>logfile at the end of your smbmount command.
Reboot and look at the logfile.
Joel


On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:45:23PM +0000, Sue Spence wrote:
> I wish you had replied to my most recent message,
> where I mentioned that I have in fact tried mounting
> the share in boot.local, which is the SuSE linux
> equivalent to rc.local. 
> 
> I may give up and negotiate with the win2k admins to
> set me up some bogus user and then put a
> username/password string in the mount command.  I know
> that will work. It's just not gonna work as guest
> unless I background the mount during boot and let it
> keep trying until it finally succeeds, and that seems
> like a poor solution (even if it did work, and it
> probably would).
> 
> FWIW I think this is a bug. I'm just not sure whose
> bug it is.
> 
> 
>  --- Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote: 
> > I haven't tried this lately but:
> > I used to do as you want. I had a statement to mount
> > all my network shares
> > on my machine at boot. I put that command into
> > /etc/init.d/rc.local,
> > which, according to the documentation in rc.local,
> > is the last script run.
> > If running last IS important, you could just make up
> > your own script and
> > finagle with the startup script sequences to run
> > this script last. It
> > isn't hard, and there may well be a GUI to do this
> > for you.
> > I mount all my shares as guest, too.
> > These startup scripts I THINK run with root
> > permission. 
> > Why don't you post the exact commands your are
> > trying to use from a
> > startup script?
> > 
> > Have you checked in /var/log/messages for errors
> > during boot?
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:11:20PM +0000, Sue Spence
> > wrote:
> > >  --- Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote: >
> > Have
> > > you tried putting your mount command in
> > > > rc.local?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes. Isn't that actually earlier in the boot
> > process
> > > than putting something like "mount -at smbfs" in
> > the
> > > "start" section in /etc/init.d/smbfs (which is
> > then
> > > executed when going to runlevel 2 because it is
> > linked
> > > as S11smbfs in /etc/init.d/rc2.d)?
> > > 
> > > There must be some minor but crucial environment
> > > difference between being anywhere in the boot
> > process
> > > and being logged in which causes mounts as guest
> > to
> > > fail. I would love to find out how to fix it, if
> > > possible.
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Sue Spence
> > > 
> > > 
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