I have a couple of smbfs lines in my fstab. I have no problem automounting them from the command line, with 'mount'

This also works:

#/etc/init.d/smbfs start


However, at boot time, the smbfs script fails. It reports "SMB connection failed" to the boot.log. The boot log also reports "Skipped services in runlevel 5: nfs smbfs"

The failure of nfs and smbfs suggests a networking problem. However, the network script works fine, and is run well before the nfs and smbfs scripts. And, indeed, the network is fine after boot, letting me run the smbfs script manually with no problem.

I run SuSE 8.2.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Greg

Perhaps its starting before your network is up, etc. What script do you have samba starting from?

I have smbfs as a kernel module. Maybe the module is not loaded properly from the rc.5 scripts?

My network startup is
/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01network

and the smbfs script is:

/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S99smbfs

So the network is definitely up before init gets to smbfs. But perhaps the kernel module is not properly loaded? Should I try compiling smbfs into the kernel?

Thanks,
Greg