[evolutioned]

Hi,
in a quest to auto mount multiple windows shared folder's using samba, i have placed multiple lines in /etc/fstab in the following format:

//windowsmachinename/folder /mnt/folder smbfs username=usr,password=pass,dmask=0777,fmask=0777

yes, i have made sure all the paths in reference are correct as when i do it manually from a shell using the 'mount' command it works find

i then "mount --bind" all the mounted smbfs paths to certain directories.

the problem i am having is upon boot the paths arn't mounting and i can't view them even from the /mnt/folder path.

there are often multiple paths needed to be mounted from each windows pc with shares.

could anyone shed some light on this problem please.

running redhat running 2.4.18 kernel.

regards,
evolutioned

[Squashman]

I am not sure if this is the same or not but I mount NCPFS for my Netware servers to my linux box. Even though it says ncpfs in the man page, I need the fstab entry to be ncp and not ncpfs. Maybe it is the same for samba.

[ShavedApe]

look at your init.d order.
i bet that the fstab is processed before samba is started, therefor mount doesn't know how to mount the share.