My CIFS volume is not mounting automatically while boot (like other partitions). This is relevant part of my /etc/fstab:
//leonidas/files /media/photos cifs credentials=/etc/samba/user,rw,uid=root,gid=samba,user,auto,noexec,suid,iocharset=utf8 0 0
When I do
sudo mount -a
It is mounted properly, but I want it to be mounted while boot. Why it is not?
My system is ubuntu 9.04.
Best Answer
I don't believe networking is up at the time at the time the filesystems are mounted. NFS mounts are started by a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs. The comments in mountnfs script say it should also mount CIFS shares.
You might want to try rebooting the system and then manually running the /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs script to see if any errors are displayed. If their are errors, add them to your question.