Auto mount of windows shares doesn't work.
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samba (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: samba
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 via an upgrade from 8.04. In 7.10 and 8.04 my auto mounts of shares on my windows box specified in my /etc/fstab worked like they should after the wireless connection on my laptop was established. This no longer is the case under 8.10. If I run "sudo mount -a" the shares are mounted. The relevant lines in my fstab are:
//192.168.
//192.168.
I've tried with and without the "nounix" parameter and with and without the "users" parameter as well as with and without the "nodfs" parameter. Nothing different. The mounts work manually every time after the wireless connection, via NetworkManager, is established. They are just not automatically mounted anymore since 8.10. Since they mount manually, and that the mounts use to work automatically, I have to believe that my credentials are correct.
I have even tried the "_netdev" option but that gives an error message that it is an invalid option for CIFS.
I have recently added the intrepid-proposed repository and updated to kernel 2.6.27-11-generic but still no luck.
This is more of an inconvenience that a show stopper but still this should work. Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong in my setup.
Changed in samba: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This might be by design...
In Ubuntu 8.10 network connections are handled by the new network-manager. By default wireless connections are defined "by user" and the wireless connection only happens when the user logs in. However network mounts from fstab are run before the user logs in, when the wireless connection is not yet available...
If you want to use the (wireless) network before being logged in (for example to automount network shares) you might want to try to convert your wireless connection to a "system" connection in network-manager (then it should be more like how it worked in 8.04). Let us know if it solves it.