Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:45:14 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting smbfs? Message-ID: <4257097A.8070002@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200504081540.50673.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200504081252.19279.kirk@strauser.com> <004701c53c6e$eeea9fb0$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> <200504081540.50673.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Friday 08 April 2005 14:12, you wrote: > > > >>Kirk, here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup >>folder prior to having a seperate nfs mount to put them. >> >>Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example) >> >> > >[...] > >Out of curiosity, why would you do that instead of just letting FreeBSD >mount it automatically (which is what I do now)? > > > I'm assuming that it's a minor league paranoid measure to ensure that, in the event the windows host(s) are unavailable, you don't hang up the boot process somehow. That's what it is for *me*, anyhow. (I don't even list smbfs shares in /etc/fstab....) AFAIK, it would just delay booting a bit, but IANAE. That's why I do it from cron, anyway; that, and because I learned about cron long before I learned about rc scripts... >The goal I'm trying to accomplish is pushing the same map to multiple >machines (eg via LDAP). I never bothered to do that with my NFS mounts, >but I'm using the addition of the SMB shares as an excuse to rework the >system before it grows much more. > > I'm no help there, I'm afraid. I do have scripts now that do my post-install configuration, and might be tweaked to "push out" smbfs mounts (via cron, as mentioned above), but that's about it...nothing so complex as LDAP. :) Kevin Kinsey
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