Mount smb at startup

[maal]

Hi,

I'm using ESX 3.0.1 32039 and I added the following command at startup (/etc/rc.d/rc.local):

mount -t smbfs -o username=myuser,password=mypwd //192.168.1.5/backup /mnt/backup[/b]

Of course i tested this command in the shell and it works fine but when i reboot my server the mount is not done ???

Anyone know why ?

Thx

[VirtualKenneth]

Redirect the output of the command to a log file so you can check what's going on

mount -t smbfs -o username=myuser,password=mypwd //192.168.1.5/backup /mnt/backup > /tmp/log 2>&1

This makes sure that ALL messages (not only error messages) get logged. Maybe this helps you

Maybe networking isn't yet (completely) active when the rc.local scripts executes

[maal]

Thank you for the usefull tip here is the error message:

901: session setup failed: Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds

SMB connection failed

Perhaps should i add a delay to start my command but i don't know how...

[VirtualKenneth]

Well you know the way to award the "useful tip" right ?

You can try and use the "sleep" command for it, but this only helps if it really is a timeout issue. If it's just the order of starting services this will not work...

But you can try it anyhow.

EDIT: BTW, to verify if it's a order of a timeout you can also add a ping command in the startup with the output to the log file.

[bxg]

Not a complete solution here, but wouldn't be setting this up in /etc/fstab be the correct way of doing this?

Issue command opening ESX firewall to be open for SMB client

esxcfg-firewall -e smbClient

Possibly change AD/Windows server settings to allow client connection from Linux (ESX) (depends on version of OS you are connecting to, see post in this link)

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=563162򉟚;

modify /etc/fstab to mount SMB share - see this link for example

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=573479򌀧

No need to reboot to test, just issue command mount -a to remount, and this will list any errors.

[dinny]

Hiya,

I haven't tried it on ESX 3.01 yet - but I found a very similar issue on ESX 2.52 - which may well have a similar solution:

I could happily manually mount the SMB share - but adding a mount command in the /etc/fstab never worked at boot.

In the end I found the following needed doing:

By default nothing seems to try to mount smb shares in the boot process.

There is a K75netfs file (this is to bring down any mounted network file systems at shutdown)

This is a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/netfs

But there was no corresponding start command to mount them at boot - I needed to create a startup netfs script via:

cd to /etc/rc3.d (where we want script to be) - then run:

ln -s /etc/init.d/netfs S75netfs (L not I - for link)

Subsequent boots then mounted the file system OK[/i]

I suspect the same issue may well apply to ESX 3.01?

Let me know?

Dinny

[biekee]

I had the same issue, my solution is:

1. put an entry in /etc/fstab:

//192.168.1.5/backup //mnt/backup smbfs username=myuser,password=mypwd 0 0

2. add an entry in /etc/rc.local:

mount -a

That does the trick at my ESX 2.5 and 3.01 environment.

See if that helps,

bk

[Nautilus]

/etc/fstab

//server/share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs noauto,username=username,password=passwoooorrdd 0 0

just the last step

type chkconfig netfs on and enter, this was

after the reboot your mount will be done !

[dinny]

Hi Nautilus,

I come from a mainly Windows background - but I'm guessing:

chkconfig netfs on[/i]

is a far easier/better way of acheiving what I did manually via :

ln -s /etc/init.d/netfs S75netfs[/i] etc....

Is that correct?

Dinny

[Nautilus]

Hi Nautilus,

I come from a mainly Windows background - but I'm

guessing:

me too

chkconfig netfs on[/i]

is a far easier/better way of acheiving what I did

manually via :

ln -s /etc/init.d/netfs S75netfs[/i] etc....

why you are making a link ?? set the netfs on for your runlevel

you can query this chkconfig --list, when you do not set this ON, you will see OFF as setting for netfs, and when you type

chkconfig netfs on , this will be enabled, you dont need a symbolink link.

Is that correct?

Dinny

look this thread

http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=505989

[dinny]

Hiya,

I was only doing it that way because I more or less worked out how it all hung together from first principles - I didn't know much about runlevels or chkconfig at the time.

chkconfig netfs on[/i] is a far better way to go.

Dinny

[johnswb]

biekee

This did the trick for me; thx for the info.