samba - Mar 2005 - I want shares on demand

I have many shares in my fstab which look just like so...

//machinename/sharename /mnt/foo smbfs
credentials=credfile,rw,user,gid=sambawrites,fmask=0774,dmask=0774 0 0

And they work generally fine. But sometimes weird things happen, i.e.
the power goes out, and the linux server comes up before the machines
with the shares do, or one of the machines with the shares gets turned
off for a couple days, or there's just weird network problems around the
office.

When this happens the shares are obviously no good. What I'm looking
for, is the ability to have the share automatically remounted next time
someone attempts to access it.

So if I go to /mnt/foo and /mnt/foo is not mounted, I want it
automounted.

Is this possible, am I in the wrong forum?

Thanks.

>So if I go to /mnt/foo and /mnt/foo is not mounted, I want it
>automounted.
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Look at autofs for that, you should be able to automate just about any 
type of mount with a little playing around in the config files.
>Is this possible, am I in the wrong forum?
>  
>
Kind of off topic, but people around here answer a lot of OT posts ;)



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