From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 22:45:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41AE16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEC043D39 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:43:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4257097A.8070002@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:45:14 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Strauser References: <200504081252.19279.kirk@strauser.com> <004701c53c6e$eeea9fb0$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> <200504081540.50673.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200504081540.50673.kirk@strauser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Apr 2005 22:43:14.0070 (UTC) FILETIME=[5944DB60:01C53C8C] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting smbfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:45:17 -0000 Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Friday 08 April 2005 14:12, you wrote: > > > >>Kirk, here's what I did to auto mount my pesky windows shared backup >>folder prior to having a seperate nfs mount to put them. >> >>Configure your share as noauto in /etc/fstab (example) >> >> > >[...] > >Out of curiosity, why would you do that instead of just letting FreeBSD >mount it automatically (which is what I do now)? > > > I'm assuming that it's a minor league paranoid measure to ensure that, in the event the windows host(s) are unavailable, you don't hang up the boot process somehow. That's what it is for *me*, anyhow. (I don't even list smbfs shares in /etc/fstab....) AFAIK, it would just delay booting a bit, but IANAE. That's why I do it from cron, anyway; that, and because I learned about cron long before I learned about rc scripts... >The goal I'm trying to accomplish is pushing the same map to multiple >machines (eg via LDAP). I never bothered to do that with my NFS mounts, >but I'm using the addition of the SMB shares as an excuse to rework the >system before it grows much more. > > I'm no help there, I'm afraid. I do have scripts now that do my post-install configuration, and might be tweaked to "push out" smbfs mounts (via cron, as mentioned above), but that's about it...nothing so complex as LDAP. :) Kevin Kinsey