Mounting remote SAMBA shares
by ganjaplanet from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BWDJ)
Hello
i have a linux server with several SAMBA/CIFS shares. It is sometimes powered on but not always.
From my client computers, i need to mount these shares at the following conditions:
* mount them WHEN the server becomes available, which is not necessarily at the clients' boot time.
* when the server is not available, the system now becomes slow when listing/accessing files on the file system, for example in GNOME's nautilus, displaying files in the same directory as where the mount poiints are takes ages
* i am not running systemd, so i'm looking for a general linux solution (Slackware clients)
I'd like to know if there are suitable fstab options, or i have to use some automounter?
thx
i have a linux server with several SAMBA/CIFS shares. It is sometimes powered on but not always.
From my client computers, i need to mount these shares at the following conditions:
* mount them WHEN the server becomes available, which is not necessarily at the clients' boot time.
* when the server is not available, the system now becomes slow when listing/accessing files on the file system, for example in GNOME's nautilus, displaying files in the same directory as where the mount poiints are takes ages
* i am not running systemd, so i'm looking for a general linux solution (Slackware clients)
I'd like to know if there are suitable fstab options, or i have to use some automounter?
thx