Samba mount from /etc/fstab fails at boot

All,

I am running SuSE 9.0 / 2.4.21 kernel and have the following line in my
etc/fstab line corresponding to a samba
mount

//HP/<username> /home/<username>/HP smbfs
auto,uid=<username>,gid=users,credentials=/root/smb/cred 0 0


(all in one line) to mount it automatically at boot

However when I boot, I get the following message

SMB connection failed

After boot, I can issue a 'mount -a' and the filesystem gets mounted.

My guess is that the 'smb' service is not started by the time the mount
is attempted at boot. If so how can I make sure that this is done?

TIA

Afternoon,

On 2005-07-09, R Kannan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am running SuSE 9.0 / 2.4.21 kernel and have the following line in my
> etc/fstab line corresponding to a samba
> mount
>
> //HP/<username> /home/<username>/HP smbfs
> auto,uid=<username>,gid=users,credentials=/root/smb/cred 0 0
>
> (all in one line) to mount it automatically at boot
>
> However when I boot, I get the following message
>
> SMB connection failed
>
> After boot, I can issue a 'mount -a' and the filesystem gets mounted.
>
> My guess is that the 'smb' service is not started by the time the mount
> is attempted at boot. If so how can I make sure that this is done?
>
Nope, its that your network cards have not fired up yet and you have no
networking at that point. You should probably look into using automount
instead which will fire up *after* all your networking has initialised.

Cheers

Alex