[UFO Chicago] network not ready when fstab is processed

[Politik Durden]

--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com>
> Subject: network not ready when fstab is processed
> To: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
> Cc: "Depaul Linux" <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
> Date: Monday, June 14, 2010, 3:20 PM
>  > Message: 4
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:59:25 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: "Matthew T. Gibbs" <mtgibbs at yahoo.com>
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> >     on    Xubuntu
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> > 
> > Are you using the _netdev option in fstab?  It may
> be
> > trying to mount the shares before the network is
> available.
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> Thanks Matt, 
> 
> Since the mounting worked manually from the command line, I
> kinda figured that something (my guess was a protocol)
> wasn't ready/loaded when fstab is being processed at start
> up. 
> 
> I tried using the _netdev option in fstab but the drives
> still won't mount at boot up. I am using cifs and this link
> 
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
> 
> says _netdev is only available with NFS. NFS would require
> installing/running and NFS server on the XP side so I'm
> trying to stick with CIFS. Is there any other way to delay
> the mounting of the network shares until after the network
> comes up ? This would be the ideal solution. 
> 
> Some people have fixed this issue by running a cron job
> that checks to see if the share is mounted, and if not, run
> a script to mount it. This could potentially require a user
> to wait for the cron job to run in order to access the
> share, or mount it manually if they don't want to wait till
> the job runs. Plus I'd have to somehow mentally connect the
> cron job with the network share. Too cumbersome. 
> 
> Others have made a script that runs "sudo mount -a" after
> everything in the OS is loaded. Not exactly elegant, and it
> kinda defeats the purpose of putting the commands in fstab.
> 
> 
> What if instead of the script running "sudo mount -a",
> which remounts everything again, the script contains only
> commands to mount the network shares ? 
> 
> 
> 

Someone on linuxquestions.org suggested using netfs to mount the shares at startup. Couldn't find much info on netfs. Wikipedia doesn't even have an entry for it. One web site described netfs as a peer to peer system. Doesn't sound like what I'm looking for. Any thoughts ?