Network drives won't mount automatically from FSTAB

khinch · 11-23-2008, 05:59 AM

Using opensuse11.0 I have added a couple of lines in fstab to automount network drives:

Code:

//192.168.x.x/xxxxxx /mnt/serverdata/shared cifs    credentials=[path],defaults,gid=users,uid=[username]              0 0
//192.168.x.x/xxxxxx /mnt/serverdata/musicroot cifs credentials=[path],defaults,gid=users,uid=[username]             0 0

Once the system has started the drives are visible in sysinfo, but have not been mounted. If I open a terminal as root and type "mount -a" the network drives work perfectly. Furthermore, if I then shut the system down it hangs for 2-3 minutes, but if I manually unmount the shares it shuts down perfectly.

Does anyone know what's happening here please? Any help much appreciated.

tredegar · 11-23-2008, 08:15 AM

I don't know why the shutdown is slow (maybe something is using the network mounts?), but the network drives are probably failing to mount at boot because the network has not come up by the time the system is looking at fstab and trying to mount things.
You could fix this by mounting them with commands in rc.local

khinch · 01-14-2009, 12:44 PM

Usually after I have used the "mount -a" command I use a file sync package to run a backup (it's a Windows sync package running under Crossover), so it's possible that there's still a reference to it somewhere. When I manually unmount the drives there is no delay though. Perhaps it's some kind of mismatch in the the startup/shutdown scripts in init.d?

Anyway, I'm getting hold of a new vid card in a few days, at which point I'll probably re-install with OpenSuSE 11.1. I'll post back here if I still have the same problem afterwards.

Quote:

You could fix this by mounting them with commands in rc.local

Does that mean just add a command like "mount -a" to the end of this file, or mount each one individually instead of using an FSTAB entry?