Automount CIFS at boot time?

[Cork Soaker]

Gents;
I have a NAS device providing CIFS access. When I reboot my
Kubuntu 8.04.1 desktop system this mount does not happend even
though the mount is in my /etc/fstab file with credentials and
other options specified.
Once I realize that this is not mounted I perform a "sudo mount -a"
and its
mounted. What must I do to have this happen automagically?

Can you post the relevant line from your fstab?

# CIFS link to NAS9 Device
//192.168.1.9/Documents /NAS9 cifs
credentials=/root/.smbpassword,iocharset=utf8,rw,uid=sysop,gid=users,f
ile_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
I have another line to mount another CIFS from a different system and
it works just fine. The NAS9 device is a 24x7 device.

Try smbfs.

What kind of lame ass answer is that boy?

A one you wouldn't understand, you thick cunt.
I'll help you:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=smbfs

I know, this is all new to you, but do try and grasp something as very
simple as smbfs.

[Cork Soaker]

Gents;
I have a NAS device providing CIFS access. When I reboot my Kubuntu
8.04.1 desktop system this mount does not happend even though the mount
is in my /etc/fstab file with credentials and other options specified.
Once I realize that this is not mounted I perform a "sudo mount -a" and
its
mounted. What must I do to have this happen automagically?

Can you post the relevant line from your fstab?

# CIFS link to NAS9 Device
//192.168.1.9/Documents /NAS9 cifs

credentials=/root/.smbpassword,iocharset=utf8,rw,uid=sysop,gid=users,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

0 0
I have another line to mount another CIFS from a different system and it
works just fine. The NAS9 device is a 24x7 device.

A couple of thoughts... The first being to try smbfs instead of cifs
(you may need to install smbfs). The NAS that I am using will not
work with cifs, but mounts fine with smbfs.
Also, try adding auto to the list of options.
Otherwise, I see nothing there that shouldn't work.

I changed to smbfs and added auto to the options and voila! it worked!
Thank you all for the suggestions. I naively thought cifs == smbfs. Go
figure!
Bob

Holy shit anti_intelligence - look at that!!

You really need to learn what "Ubuntu" and "Linux" is before you try and
troll an UBUNTU LINUX newsgroup.

Silly bitch, wasn't hugged enough!