Re: SAMBA -- automatic remounting

In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx>:
Ignoramus27088 wrote:
On 30 Mar 2006 07:46:37 -0800, Michael Wulff <mwulfff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
to ensure that these mounts would survive reboots of the server
put this in /etc/fstab:

//servername/share /mount/point smbfs
auto,username=user,password=pw,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

Thanks. It works very nicely when I just type mount. I hope that it
would also auto-remount the partition if the server that hosts these
shares is rebooted. (is that the case?)

i

I think the auto bit means 'I will mount if someone needs to access the
drive' ..

No it doesn't, just means mount the fs during boot automatically.

See mount(8).

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