Try mounting your smb drives from the rc.local file. Create a script that mounts the drives and place somewhere safe like the /root directory and call it that way.
It's also more secure if you are using -o username=user, password=pass in a plain fstab file. Hope this helps John the kiwi On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:31, Tom Pollerman wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:25:28 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Folks: > > > > I'm still trying to solve an irritating issue. I have RH 7.3 on my > > laptop with a Netgear PCMCIA network card. The Linux boot process > > tries to start eth0 and mount my SMB drives BEFORE it initiates the > > PCMCIA slots. As a consequence, obviously, mount can't find the two > > computers with the SMB drives. So, I have to manually run mount > > every time I start up the computer. Granted, this isn't all that big > > a deal but it's inconvenient and I believe it can be made to work. > > The first thing that comes to my mind is to move up initiating the > > PCMCIA cards in the boot process. Unfortunately, I can't figure out > > how to do that. Further, I have no idea whether that even makes > > sense (are there dependencies that prevent initiating the PCMCIA > > slots earlier?). > > > > Does anybody know what to do about this? > > > > > > > There was a similar question posed in Linux Journal's "Best of Tech > Support" Forum in the Dec. 1999 issue. Here's the link: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3720 > > Look for the last problem on the page - titled "Boot Process > Question." > > Hope it helps................. > > > Best, > > Tom > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
