mounting samba shares easily

crisponions · 07-16-2003, 09:42 PM

I am trying to mount a couple samba shares at start up and am having some problems. I tried putting the commands in fstab but my system is running fstab before it starts up smb (I think) and it hangs during startup while mounting the smb shares. So I tried writing a script I could run and maybe eventually put in my profile, but the problem is my password for the samba share contains a ( so the script encounters an error at my password. anybody know how I can find a solution?

zmedico · 07-16-2003, 10:56 PM

Do those shares mount okay when the system is up and running? Maybe you can put "quotes" around the password. Also, maybe you can mount them in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (it runs after all other init scripts).

tangle · 07-16-2003, 11:02 PM

If it was me I would change the password. I tried a password with a ( in it and it gave me an invalid syntax error. It looks like the ( character is not valid.

crisponions · 07-16-2003, 11:57 PM

The shares mount fine once I am up and running. How do I go about putting in the rc.local?

I really dont want to change the password, I thought of another work around by adding another account with access to the drives (they are ntfs) but I know I should be able to get these to mount. I did somethin a few years back by having the smbd service startup earlier in the boot process but can't remember how.

zmedico · 07-17-2003, 12:07 AM

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Originally posted by crisponions
The shares mount fine once I am up and running. How do I go about putting in the rc.local?

Do it as you did after the system was "up an running". Did you do something like "mount -t smbfs ..."?

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Originally posted by crisponions
I did somethin a few years back by having the smbd service startup earlier in the boot process but can't remember how.

I think the "auto" drives from fstab get mounted in /etc/rc.sysinit. You could start the service in there, or maybe add something to /etc/inittab