once again CIFS problem

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Hi,
openSuSe 11.1

I can mount my windows shares manually.

I have put the propriate commands into /etc/fstab like:

//computername/share /mnt/dir/xxx cifs auto,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,username=foo,password=bar 0 0

When I boot my machine, the mountpoint is not active.

When I start “rcsmbfs start” from shell the shares are mounted.

Mount CIFS File Systems
from /etc/fstab . done

chkconfig -l smbfs
smbfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off

So it should already work during startup - but doesn’t

Any idea how to get it working at startup?

Regards
Karl-Heinz

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This has been a bug since openSUSE 10.3, see this bug report:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456469
As you can see, it’s supposed to be fixed. I’ve checked, smbfs isn’t running in Yast’s runlevel editor and (for me at least) it won’t start.

Looks to me like you need to file a bug report similar to the linked bug report, but for 11.2.

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I just spent some time checking it out. If you have the runlevels (yast → runlevels → expert mode) set to 3 and 5 and then “enable” it will assume the status of set and running. When next you reboot it will work and assume the correct runlevel status, provided you have a valid cifs mount description in fstab.

You can test your cifs mounts before rebooting with the command: sudo mount -a
Make sure to have the option _netdev in the options list

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Hi,
option _netdev seemed to be the solution.
Thanks
Karl-Heinz