From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 17:10:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40791065673 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 17:10:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sdafreebsduk@rowyerboat.com) Received: from brookes.ac.uk (csmail1.brookes.ac.uk [161.73.1.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85EA98FC18 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 17:10:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sdafreebsduk@rowyerboat.com) Received: from [161.73.146.9] (izb6d318.brookes.ac.uk [161.73.146.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by brookes.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m47Gs44D008368 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 17:54:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4821DEA3.3020905@rowyerboat.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:53:55 +0100 From: Stephen Allen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Oxford Brookes University MailScanner X-MailScanner: Clean X-MailScanner-From: sdafreebsduk@rowyerboat.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: SMB share not mounting at startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:15 -0000 I am trying to mount an SMB share at startup. I have configured (as root) .nsmbrc so I don't have to type a password. When I run "mount -a", it mounts beautifully. However, when restarting the server, it will not mount automatically. According to rc.conf(5), smbfs is part of 'netfs_types' so rc should wait until after the network is started before trying to mount it (so shouldn't fail). I have an entry in /etc/fstab as follows: //backup@snap-cms/unix_backups /mnt/snapserver smbfs rw 0 0 Does anyone have any ideas? I'm wondering if the .nsmbrc file can't be read because rc isn't running as root - and if so, where can I put .nsmbrc? Many thanks, Steve :)