Mounting Windows Shares

[WestCoastKid]

Hi,
We have two SUSE 9.1 clients in house, as well as 1 windows fileserver.
I have had success with one client, in terms of mounting the windows shares to the directory.
Upon rebooting the windows share will mount.

My problem is, I can not get the windows share to mount automatically on our second linux client.
I have to manually do it, by bringing up a linux console, logging in as root and issuing a mount -a command. At that point the file system will mount temporarily. Once the client system is rebooted the windows shares will not mount again (unless I do it manually)

Can anyone share some ideas? Just fyi once the shares are mount the client can read-write to the shares no problem.

 

[rzs0502]

How are you mounting it, via /etc/fstab?

Eg. fstab

//winserver/share /winshare username=domain\\user, password=xxxxx 1 2



"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[WestCoastKid]

Here is a copy of fstab:

/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users, umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
//10.0.1.13/Admin /home/user/Fileserver/Admin cifs username=user,password=user1
//10.0.1.13/data /home/alanr/Fileserver/Data cifs username=user,password=user1
//10.0.1.13/ACTG /home/alanr/Fileserver/Actg cifs username=user,password=user1
//10.0.1.13/contracts /home/alanr/Fileserver/Contracts cifs username=user,password=user1

Thinking about my problem...there is a difference between the two clients.
With client A (the system where the shares mount automatically) the shares are mounted on /mnt with system B the problem child, the shares are mounted in /home/user1/

 

[franklin97355]

Might be an access issue since /home directories are available only to the user (alanr) and root.

 

[WestCoastKid]

After thinking more about our problem. I would agree that it could be a mount point issue. I'll try moving the destination to another location.

Thanks