Re: [Sheflug] Re: Automounting SMB shares

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:52 22/07/02 +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>Hi
>
> > only having experienced Windoze in the past. Therefore, I don't
> > want them having to mess around manually mounting and unmounting
> > the SMB shares. If I put a line in the boot.local script, this gets
> > run before the networking is set up so obviously fails.
>
>
>I thought that the way to deal with this one was to edit /etc/fstab
>and get it to work from there ?  You could use smbmount or perhaps
>NFS to do this.
>
>Anyone want to give a better example ?

I've got a line in /etc/fstab which reads

//server/public  /mnt/public  smbfs  auto,user,ro  0 0

but it doesn't automount the directory. Is the above line incorrect in some 
respect?


Steve


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