We backup our UNIX (methusela old) box to a windows file share that is mounted on a server 2008 r2 box. there is a script that backs up all of our cobol stuff from UNIX to that share.

I can issue a mount command on my RHEL box to point at the 2008 server as such..

sudo mount -t cifs //08server/share /rheldirectory/directory -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

navigate to directory and it lists the backup folders on 08 no problem.

i put //08server/share /rheldirectory/directory cifs username=myusername,password=mypassword 0 0 in fstab and when i reboot its gone.

so obviously i'm missing something. i need to automate the copying of files from the backup to the RHEL box so we can recompile them for testing, eventually we will be solely on the RHEL environment.

and yes if i can get it to work like this i will create a credentials file. but since i'm the only user i'm not worried about people seeing the creds right now.

can you mount the directory with that fstab entry? i.e. "mount /rhelblah/blah" and nothing else? On boot, the netfs service mounts the network shares fairly late in the boot process, to give the network a chance to exist, unlike the conventional local devices which get mounted early doors. So maybe netfs isn't running on boot, which is highly likely if you can mount the directory conventionally after boot.

i'll try that after i reboot again, we are testing something right now so may be a while.

when i run the command to see what's mounted, its actually there twice, so not sure if i'm just being an impatient cuss or what.

your fstab entry is incorrect.try this:

nope, still have to mount it directly from CLI.

could u post your fstab file, plz.

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Oct 11 09:48:38 2011
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=abd24050-c8d1-4a22-a065-173dee604d09 / ext4 defaul
ts 1 1
UUID=c62c737c-3357-4511-8e09-11a18374695f swap swap defaul
ts 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/data/data1 /data1 ext4 defaults 1 2
fqdn of win2k8:unixg3 /data1/Unixg3Backup cifs username=myusername,password=mypassword 0 0

obviously obsfuticated necessary info

the syntax seems to be correct.what's the output of mount command ?

when i run sudo mount -t cifs yadda yadda it just goes to the next line, no output, which is what it always does if its correct. i can then see the 2k8 share in the target directory.

ok, so netfs is my bet, unless the network still isn't ready by that time.

Try adding _netdev to the options for that mount. It will wait for the network to be live prior to attempting to mount the volume.

added _netdev to my options, rebooted, went grocery shopping, just in case i was being impatient, came back, server does not list folders on 2k8 machine, hit mount /rhel/dir and it says its already mounted to 2k8, had to run sudo mount -t yadda yadd to get it to connect where i could see it.

I am not sure then unless there is an abnormally long delay between the link coming up and being able to communicate across the network.

thats entirly possible, i found that if i do mount -a it comes back, so i included that in a script i was writing that runs on reboot. seems to work, now if i could get cobol to behave i'd be golden.