Hi Everyone,

I'd like to mount a smb share from a windows machine when my suse10.2 laptop boots ... I tried adding a line to my fstab but because I use wireless to connect to my lan and fstab is read before wlan0 is up ... it doesn't mount the share ... If I run mount -a from a root-terminal the share would mount fine so I know the line I had in fstab was good...So I figured a script to mount the share would work if it was the last one before kde loads, that way wlan0 is up and connected...but I don't know what to put in the script or where to put the script so it can be ran. I tried a script like:

#! bin/sh
mount -t cifs 192.168.2.07/MP3s /home/myuserid/music


and I put this in /ect/init.d

that didn't work so I moved the script to /ect/rc5.d so it would load when I go into runlevel 5 but this also didn't work ... I also tried it with the script in both places ... still didn't work ...So now I'm posting here .... I don't know if the little script I wrote is wrong or if I put it in the wrong place or both... Any help or ideas would be great .... Thanks

Erick

You can put it in /etc/rc.local or look at /etc/init.d/rc.local to see what it does (on my machine it calls /etc/rc.local) in case you don't have this file.

mount -t cifs 192.168.2.07/MP3s /home/myuserid/music
Does this command works from a shell?

I would
1) put this in /etc/fstab
//srv/share /home/myuserid/music cifs noauto,user=DOMAIN\user,iocharset=utf8,uid=<xxx>,gid=<xxx> 1 2

2) put this in /etc/rc.local:
mount /home/myuserid/music

ok I'm getting closer ... I put the following in fstab:

//192.168.2.07/MP3s /home/myuserid/music cifs rw,noauto,user 0 0

then I edited /ect/init.d/smb

which is the script that loads/starts the smb daemon and I added


mount -t cifs //192.168.2.07/MP3s /home/myuserid/music

in the start loop and I put the umount command in the stop loop

now when I boot I get to a spot that asks for the root password ... then goes on and loads kde ... if I then do a ctrl-alt-f1 I see that its still waiting for the password I enter it then alt-f7 to get back to the gui it works .... when I try the command

mount -t cifs //192.168.2.07/MP3s /home/myuserid/music

from a ROOT terminal it still asks for root's password ... if I could get past the password stuff I should be all set ....

create a credentials file with username and password in it, chmod 600 for security, and you are set.