On June 12, 2003 11:01 am, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > anyone had this problem before? in my fstab i have this: > > > > //jaysdell/mp3 /mnt/jay smbfs user,rw,guest,uid=500 0 0
> What did you put in your default runlevel: netmount, nfsmount? I > don't know the details, but you might look at that. If I recall well > Gentoo mounts only certain parts from your fstab, depending on the > runlevel config. > > Also, what is the mode for /mnt/jay? Is it 777, or more restricted? > If so, that might explain why it won't mount manually as a user. i'm thinking that it won't let a regular user mount the share because of the "uid=500" bit in the fstab file... i suppose that's ok. as for it not mounting at boot time though, that's the weird part. i have the following in /etc/runlevels/default/: cupsd hdparm local net.eth0 netmount numlock portmap samba sshd sysklogd vcron vmware xdm and a quick look into netmount shows me that it just mounts all filesystems in fstab of type "coda,nfs,ncpfs,smbfs" as long as portmap is started: start() { local rcfilesystems="" # Only try to mount NFS filesystems if portmap was started. # This is to fix "hang" problems for new users who do not # add portmap to the default runlevel. if [ -L ${svcdir}/started/portmap ] then rcfilesystems="coda,nfs,ncpfs,smbfs" else rcfilesystems="coda,ncpfs,smbfs" fi ebegin "Mounting network filesystems" mount -at ${rcfilesystems} >/dev/null if [ "$?" -ne 0 ] then ewend 1 "Could not mount all network filesystems!" else eend 0 fi return 0 } so here's the kooky part: i decided to run the /etc/init.d/netmount restart... and it all worked fine. it's just during boot that it seems to be dying. -- one dissident anywhere is a threat to tyrants everywhere - ken larsen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list