Mount network folders on boot-up (Ubuntu 6.06)

[Tristan]

I'm trying to mount network folders on boot-up, and allow all users to read/write but nothing happens, when I go to the directory where I mounted it, nothing is there. By the way, I'm trying to mount folders from a XP PRO SP2 machine that doesn't have a password. When I mount the network folders manually using

sudo mount //192.168.1.102/Videos /media/Justin/Videos -o dmask=777,fmask=777

it works fine. Can anyone help?

Here is my fstab.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>	   <dump>  <pass>
proc			/proc		   proc	defaults		0	   0
/dev/hda6	   /			   ext3	defaults,errors=remount-ro 0	   1
/dev/hda1	   /media/hda1	 ntfs	nls=utf8,umask=0222 0	   0
/dev/hda5	   /media/hda5	 ntfs	nls=utf8,umask=0222 0	   0
/dev/hda8	   /media/hda8	 vfat	iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0	   0
/dev/hdb1	   /media/hdb1	 ntfs	nls=utf8,umask=0222 0	   0
/dev/hda7	   none			swap	sw			  0	   0
/dev/hdd		/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto	 0	   0
/dev/fd0		/media/floppy0  auto	rw,user,noauto  0	   0
//192.168.1.102/Downloads	/media/Justin/Downloads smbfs  dmask=777,fmask=777  0	0
//192.168.1.102/SharedDocs	/media/Justin/SharedDocs smbfs  dmask=777,fmask=777  0	0
//192.168.1.102/Videos	/media/Justin/Videos smbfs  dmask=777,fmask=777  0	0

[Tek]

I'm not sure about SMB. If i was doing it, I would add the following commands into Ubuntu's equivalent of /etc/rc.local, whatever it might be called.

mount //192.168.1.102/Videos /media/Justin/Videos -o dmask=777,fmask=777
mount //192.168.1.102/SharedDocs /media/Justin/SharedDocs -o dmask=777,fmask=777
mount //192.168.1.102/Downloads /media/Justin/Downloads -o dmask=777,fmask=777

Automounting filesystems is usually one of the first things that happens at boot time, networking support and other network related things usually come later. Maybe you can change the order your services start at boot time.

[Tristan]

didnt work

[Tek]

Enlighten me, what is Ubuntu's equivalent of /etc/rc.local ?

[Tristan]

this is how my /etc/rc.local looks like. I removed the exit 0 at the end and put in the mounts.

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

mount //192.168.1.102/Videos /media/Justin/Videos -o dmask=777,fmask=777
mount //192.168.1.102/SharedDocs /media/Justin/SharedDocs -o dmask=777,fmask=777
mount //192.168.1.102/Downloads /media/Justin/Downloads -o dmask=777,fmask=777

[Tek]

Is the script executable?

ls -l /etc/rc.local

[Tristan]

Is the script executable?

ls -l /etc/rc.local

it says "In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution bits." is editing it changing the execution bits?.....sry im just a newbie

[Tek]

No, changing the executable bits would be: chmod +x /etc/rc.local

[Tristan]

No, changing the executable bits would be: chmod +x /etc/rc.local

I typed that in and rebooted but nothing still.

[Tek]

Put the 'exit 0' back at the end.

[Tristan]

ok, its still doesn't mounting when I boot up, but when I type sudo /etc/rc.local in the terminal it asks from my password then again 3 more times. When I finish typing in the passwords the shared folders finally mounts and I'm able to access them. I guessing the only reason it doesn't work when I boot up is because it doesn't have my password or whatever, is there anyone to put that in?

[Tek]

That script would be run with root privileges at boot, so you shouldn't need to worry about a password.

I just read ubuntuforums.org, and this apparently works in fstab:

//192.168.1.102/Videos /media/Justin/Videos smbfs guest,uid=<username>,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode,auto 0 0
//192.168.1.102/SharedDocs /media/Justin/SharedDocs smbfs guest,uid=<username>,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode,auto 0 0
//192.168.1.102/Downloads /media/Justin/Downloads smbfs guest,uid=<username>,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode,auto 0 0

Obviously replace <username> with an actual name, and ignore the line wrapping.

[Tristan]

yeah I was just there also, I just had to put cifs instead of smbfs in the fstab, now everything is working perfectly. thanks.

//192.168.1.102/Videos	/media/Justin/Videos cifs  uid=1000,umask=777  0	0