On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:08, K Montgomery wrote: > I have a laptop that runs the netfs service on boot in order to mount a > remote Samba filesystem. However, being a laptop, it's not always > connected to the network. > > Can I make it so that if netfs fails to find the Samba server on boot, > it will attempt to connect repeatedly -- say, every 5 minutes -- in case > I do connect to the network later? I have a little shell scripting > experience, so any suggestions involving that are welcome.
Create a script which will first check for the existence of your server and share ('smbclient -L //server', then parse the output to look for the correct share name). Then, if the server and share exist, run smbmount with the appropriate options to mount your samba server/share. Then, create a cron job that will run the script every 5 minutes. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. "lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import"
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