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by **Mladen Gavrilovi** » Tue, 30 Apr 2002 03:51:14

Hi all,

I have a partially working Samba connection to my WinXP box. Until I
get the time to smooth everything out, I'm happy just having access to
my mp3s. This is the line in fstab:

//HOMER/ddrive /usr/media/sound/mp3s smbfs \
ip=192.168.0.1,workgroup=MYGROUP,guest,rw 0 0

When I type in "mount/usr/media/sound/mp3s" as root in a shell,
everything goes fine. But if I put the same line in rc.sysinit or
rc.local, it either isn't executed or it doesn't work. Anyone know why?

Note that other commands in the rc files work fine, which would support
the assumption that the mount is executed but something fails. But I
can do the mount fine from a root shell manually, which would support
the assumption that the mount isn't executed. Which leaves nothing to
go on.

By the way it's a RH 7.2 system with the custom HPT 372 RAID controller
kernel from HighPoint.

Regards,
Mladen

by **Dave Bro** » Wed, 01 May 2002 03:31:06

> I have a partially working Samba connection to my WinXP box. Until I
> get the time to smooth everything out, I'm happy just having access to
> my mp3s. This is the line in fstab:

> //HOMER/ddrive /usr/media/sound/mp3s smbfs \
> ip=192.168.0.1,workgroup=MYGROUP,guest,rw 0 0

> When I type in "mount/usr/media/sound/mp3s" as root in a shell,
> everything goes fine. But if I put the same line in rc.sysinit or
> rc.local, it either isn't executed or it doesn't work. Anyone know why?

Just to see what might be going on, I put an entry in rc.local, and it did
mount okay on reboot. My entry looks different from yours, since I'm not
trying to access it via /etc/fstab, and I have "user" security; (pardon my
syntax on share names--it's the way I learned it):

mount '\\dilbert\c' -t smbfs -o username="dhbrown%xyz123" /mnt/extra

This does work, so I conclude there's no reason why you can't do a
samba mount from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

But I just noticed--you're trying to connect to XP; didn't MS put
something in XP to try to break Samba? My share is on a Win98 box,
(last time I bought anything with MS on it).

--
Dave Brown Austin, TX

by **Mladen Gavrilovi** » Thu, 02 May 2002 02:04:32

hmm... I tracked it down and the script gives one of the samba
ERRNoaccess messages when it tries to execute the command. I don't get
why, though, because the same exact command executes fine when root does it.

>>I have a partially working Samba connection to my WinXP box. Until I
>>get the time to smooth everything out, I'm happy just having access to
>>my mp3s. This is the line in fstab:

>>//HOMER/ddrive /usr/media/sound/mp3s smbfs \
>> ip=192.168.0.1,workgroup=MYGROUP,guest,rw 0 0

>>When I type in "mount/usr/media/sound/mp3s" as root in a shell,
>>everything goes fine. But if I put the same line in rc.sysinit or
>>rc.local, it either isn't executed or it doesn't work. Anyone know why?

> Just to see what might be going on, I put an entry in rc.local, and it did
> mount okay on reboot. My entry looks different from yours, since I'm not
> trying to access it via /etc/fstab, and I have "user" security; (pardon my
> syntax on share names--it's the way I learned it):

> mount '\\dilbert\c' -t smbfs -o username="dhbrown%xyz123" /mnt/extra

> This does work, so I conclude there's no reason why you can't do a
> samba mount from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

> But I just noticed--you're trying to connect to XP; didn't MS put
> something in XP to try to break Samba? My share is on a Win98 box,
> (last time I bought anything with MS on it).

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rc.local and rc.sysinit don't execute mount

rc.local and rc.sysinit don't execute mount

rc.local and rc.sysinit don't execute mount

rc.local and rc.sysinit don't execute mount