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Old 08-01-2012
unable to automount a cifs drive in linux
Hi

I am using SUSE 11 linux

I have couple of "nfs" entries in /etc/fstab which are automatically loaded after system restart.

One of the entry is windows drive mounted using cifs as shown below
Code:
//IP-Address/Partition /mnt/x cifs credentials=/creds/.creds,rw,uid=<name>   0 0

I want to make the cifs automounted like every nfs partition.

Could anyone please help me how to auto mount a cifs
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Old 08-01-2012
It can't mount a network partition before the network's working, and mounting filesystems is nearly the first thing a system does on boot.

You may have to put 'noauto' in the options so the system doesn't hang asking for the administrator password when they fail to mount on boot. Then put mount commands in /etc/local.start or whatever your system's equivalent for a "system commands to run after the system's booted" file is. Make sure this script doesn't return false, even on error, since on some systems that will cause Local (the login system) to fail to start.
 
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