[Samba] Mounting smbfs as guest at boot time

[Joseph Loo]

If you want to start after a particuliar phase of the boot, like the 
end, checkout /etc/rc5.d directory. This is where all the automatic 
startups when you are in the init run level 5 mode (last part of the 
boot for the regular system).  Anything that starts with "S" will be 
runned automatically in the script. Noter S1 will be runned before S99. 
This is the standard convention in Linux I beleive.


As a convention, place the script in /etc/init.d and link it into the 
rc5.d directory. The script should be robust enough to accept a minimum 
of 2 args kill and start. This is the convention to start an stop processes.

You should test your mount script by executing it as root to find any 
errors. I use the following mount command:
mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/root/bin/credential -o workgroup=gcsnt 
//golcommon/Data /win/goleta 

where /root/bin/credential is a file with 2 lines:

username  =  yourusername
password = passwordforyourusername

Joel Hammer wrote:

>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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Joseph Loo
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