On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Fred Richards wrote:
>
> Hello list people...
>
> Just thought I'd ask a question. I have samba 2.0.7 (well 2.0.8 now)
> installed, on a slackware 7.1 linux machine, and kernel 2.4.4, with
> encrypted passwords to a few windows machines. I have the windows shares
> in /etc/fstab, set to "noauto", so they don't automatically
get mounted at
> boot time. In fact, I only want to be able to mount them as root when I
> want to. Now I migrated to 2.2.0, manually compiling and designating the
> paths where everthing should go. And everything worked fine. Except for
> one thing. When I mount a share, //tor/c, lets say on /torc, it says:
>
> smbfs: no such mount option noauto
>
> Has the option changed for 2.2.0? I know mount needs noauto so when it
No, it has never been supported. It used to be silently ignored, I think.
Mount can be told to mount all, except certain filesystem types:
mount -a -t nosmbfs
Check if your startup scripts don't already have something like this (then
you can remove the noauto option).
I think the fix for this may need to be done in the mount tool. I think
that smbmount doesn't know if the mount is being done in "auto"
mode or
not.
/Urban