[UFO Chicago] network not ready when fstab is processed

[Politik Durden]

--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:

> From: Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com>
> Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] network not ready when fstab is processed
> To: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 11:02 PM
> 
> On Tue, June 15, 2010 6:38 pm, Politik Durden wrote:
> > --- 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>
> >> > Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] [DLC]allowable
> characters
> >> for
> >> > group names
> >> >     on    Xubuntu
> >> > To: UFO Mail list <ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us>
> >> > Message-ID: <203383.23440.qm at web112405.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >> >
> >> > 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
> ?
> >
> 
> I usually prefer what works.  I'd figure that the cron
> job would work
> within 5-10 minutes of booting up, which you probably
> shouldn't be doing
> that often anyway.  For most users, sure, there might
> be a gap but it's
> not likely.
> 
> brian
> 
> 


So now I'm trying to add mount commands to /etc/rc.local, but so far no luck. The very first line of rc.local is : 

#!/bin/sh -e

and the comments in rc.local say that by default, the script does nothing. Do I need to uncomment the line 

#!/bin/sh -e

for anything to work ? 

I did "chmod +x rc.local" to make it executable, but still no run at boot up. 

Any ideas ?