From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 12 2:44:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B58F37B436 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:44:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16kjlj-000380-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:44:35 +0000 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problems mounting SMB filesystems at boot time. Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:44:35 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Before SMBFS was integrated into the base system I used to mount several shared from NT servers at boot time, using lines in /etc/fstab to do so. I cannot get this to work using the integrated SMBFS however. I always get "smbffs: cannt assign requessted address" or something like that - its a message at boot time and doesnt seem to end up in any logs that I have get found. This also prevents the system from booting as it will not get past this point. I can mark the discs as "noauto", in which case the system boots but they do not get mounted (I seem to recall that smbfs had a script in local/rc.d which mounted noauto smbfs filesystems after boot). Adding the "noauto" is what is suggested in the manpage, but for me it simply does nothing. After boot the filesystems will mount quite happily, I have all the correct info in nsmb.conf for the actual mount to succeed, and all the machine names and IP addresses are in /etc/hosts. I have done a web search and come up with nothing. Am I the only one affected by this problem ? It affects all the machines I have upgraded. I realise this is an old problem (and one I should probably have mentioned when the change was first made) but at the time I simply unmountedthe discs and forgot. This week, however, I need to make changes which will ensure these discs are mounted at boot time so I have been looking into it again. I guess I vaguley hoped that updates to stable would have made the problem go away. No such luck :-) Suggestions ? -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message