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olliraa

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 16

autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

I can mount my cifs/samba share from terminal like this:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=blaablaa,password=blaablaa //192.168.1.1/Media /media/MEDIA/server

So why doesn't it work as a command in autostart.sh like this?

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=blaablaa,password=blaablaa //192.168.1.1/Media /media/MEDIA/server &

Any clues? I'd rather not touch my fstab

olliraa

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 16

Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

Ok, it seems that the problem is kinda very simple:

In the syslog my mount-command is executed before the Network manager "starts" the wired connection, so no wonder mounting a network share won't work

The problem is, that I don't know how to make my mount command to be run AFTER the network manager has started the connection. (or network manager to be run earlier) Any help?

My mount-command is the very last in the autostart.sh, so I'm kinda stuck here

pitje

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From: me to you

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 437

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Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

you could try to 'sleep' for a few seconds before trying to connect to your samba shares:

(sleep 5s && sudo mount -t cifs -o username=blaablaa,password=blaablaa //192.168.1.1/Media /media/MEDIA/server) &

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fnordianslip

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Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

On my cruncheee install,  there's a a mountnfs script in /etc/network/if-ip.d/

That might be a good place to look.

olliraa

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 16

Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

Thanks However, it seems that I actually got it working with no changes at all... I read something similar concerning samba shares and large number of files: it takes a while to "cache" them and show up in the mount directory. I'll test a bit further, but now it seems to work as I expected.

olliraa

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 16

Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

SUCCESS I put a 5 second delay in the mount command in the autostart.sh and it works. Hope this helps some other people too

Thank you pitje

(sleep 5s && sudo mount -t cifs -o username=blaablaa,password=blaablaa //192.168.1.1/Media /media/MEDIA/server) &

ZAP

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 313

Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

This method isn't working for me using #! Jaunty, and I'd like to use it rather than add mount info to /etc/fstab because that file is outside of my encrypted home directory. The shared directory isn't mounted, although if I paste the mount command into a terminal window it does work. I've tried increasing the wait time, but that doesn't seem to be the issue.

I also don't understand how a sudo command can be executed in autostart.sh without entering the password...?

Info on how to correct the neverending CIFS VFS shutdown error can be found here (I had to use K00 as a prefix on my laptop in order to avoid this error message):
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/03/10 … s-related/

ZAP

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 313

Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

Hmm. If I add the command to my Openbox menu it works, although I have to enter my password into a terminal that opens up. Here's my menu entry:

        <item label="Mount Tooga">
            <action name="Execute">
                <execute>
                terminator --command="sudo mount -t cifs -o username=me,password=mypassword //192.168.0.120/archivos /mnt/tooga"
                </execute>
            </action>
        </item>

Zwopper

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Registered: 2008-11-28

Posts: 580

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Re: autostart.sh and mounting a samba share?

I simply put this in autostart.sh

# Mount Network Shares
(sleep 15s && smbnetfs -o nonempty ~/Network) &

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