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Date:      Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:44:34 -0500
From:      Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot
Message-ID:  <4BBB56E2.10801@tundraware.com>

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I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like 
this:

 //USER@WINSERVER/SHARE   /mountpoint    smbfs   rw          0       0

The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up
before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then
hangs permanently because it cannot get the SMB share points mounted.
This recently happened after a catastrophic power outage that cooked
the share info on "WINSERVER". Even after it came up, it was no longer
serving the proper shares and the FBSD machine could never find the
SMB shares and thus hung permanently.

The SMB mounts are not essential for systems operations. Is there a
way to tell the FBSD to try and mount SMB, but keep going and complete
the boot if it cannot?

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