[Samba] /etc/fstab

[Axel Heinrici]

Hi
On Friday 20 September 2002 12:23, Frank Matthieß wrote:
> Freitag den 20.09.2002 um 11:26 CEST  +0200, schrieb Axel 
Heinrici:

> >
> > What do you mean by this? I really do not understand. A few
> > days ago I compiled samba-2.2.5. There is a configure option to
> > also compile smbmount.
>
> Do you compile with smbmount?
>
> If you do so, read the manpage of mount:
>
> -t vfstype
> 	...
>     For  most  types all the mount program has to do is
>     issue  a  simple  mount(2)  system  call,  and   no
>     detailed   knowledge  of  the  filesystem  type  is
>     required.  For  a  few  types  however  (like  nfs,
>     smbfs,  ncpfs) ad hoc code is necessary. The nfs ad
>     hoc code is built in, but smbfs and  ncpfs  have  a
>     separate  mount program. In order to make it possi­
>     ble to treat all types in a uniform way, mount will
>     execute   the  program  /sbin/mount.TYPE  (if  that
>     exists) when called with type TYPE.  Since  various
>     versions  of  the  smbmount  program have different
>     calling conventions, /sbin/mount.smb may have to be
>     a shell script that sets up the desired call.
> 	...
>
>
I know this.

> fm at fortytwo:~$ ls -l /sbin/mount.smb*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root  17 06-28 08:05 /sbin/mount.smb ->
> /usr/bin/smbmount lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root  17 06-28 08:05
> /sbin/mount.smbfs -> /usr/bin/smbmount
>
The "make install" of the samba2.2.5 tarball sets this up in a 
correct way. 
The path of the samba binaries is now/usr/local/samba/bin/. And so 
is the link /sbin/mount.smbfs.

> > This may cause problems. At startup "mount -a" is called before
> > network is up (at least in some distributions). So better add
> > the "noauto"-option and mount the specific share later (after
> > network coming up) by a separate skript.
>
> I prefer debian systems. debian mount all local fs'es first.
> After startup of networking, they setup the remote fs'es.

SuSE is not so clever concerning this issue. I got some error 
messages by doing it that way. 

greetings
	Axel