samba shares in /etc/fstab don't get mounted on bootup

[manmi]

I got mount entries in my fstab of the like:

//main/user /home/user/shares smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/creds,rw,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850,uid=user,gid=user 0 0

After the last dapper upgrades they don't work anylonger. The file server is a Debian Sarge machine.

On bootup when it comes to starting hald it hangs for about a minute until it continues to boot. Then I see icons for not mounted media on my desktop which I can't mount due to missing rights.

I cannot find anything helpful in my logfiles and put the mount command in rc.local for the time being where I can mount the shares without problems.

[Mikko Parviainen (pare-pieni)]

I have the same kind of entry in my /etc/fstab, that is, a samba share from a Debian machine.

I have also 'auto' in the options field. The previous versions did mount this automatically, but after Dapper update the auto mount does not work.
I didn't find any relevant logs, either.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

I have the same problem: my cifs entries in /etc/fstab aren't mounted at boot. This problem has existed in Dapper for about two weeks, and is still present after upgrading to Edgy yesterday. A workaround is to add the line 'mount -a' to /etc/rc.local

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

I should add that I do not receive any other errors.