smbfs mount at boot (Solaris 11.3)

[Paul]

Hi all,

I have a SMB share I would like to mount at boot time so I dont have to do this manually.

If I store the username and password with the following command:

$ smbadm add-key -u terry@solarsystem
Password for SOLARSYSTEM/terry:

Is it then just a case of adding the mount command to /etc/vfstab?

Or are there other steps that need to be taken to achieve this?




The command I use to manually mount the share is:

mount -F smbfs -o user=<myuser>,domain=<mydomain>,dirperms=777,fileperms=777 //gfile.<mydomain>.com/DATA1 /data


Regards,
Paul

[YTC#1]

Not much help, but this takes me back to when I last played with SMB

I still have some entries in my vfstab, but IIRC I still had to call
mount <dir> to get them up.

---8<
//ytc_nas/Movies - /export/Movies smbfs - no -
#//ytc_nas/Movies - /export/home/bruce/Movies smbfs -
no user=admin
---8<

IIRC, it was something to do with root ownership, or not.....

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[Paul]

Thanks Bruce, I see from your vfstab entry you have "mount at boot" set to "no" so this maybe why you needed manually intervene?

Did you ever use the smbadm add-key method for the username and password authentication?

[YTC#1]

When it was yes, the system errored at boot :-(

> Did you ever use the smbadm add-key method for the username and password authentication?
>

That doesn't ring a bell, sorry.
Eventually I gave up and reverted to NFS again. (I ditched the NAS)

[Juergen Schroeder]

YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26/07/2018 12:49, Paul wrote:
> > On Thursday, 26 July 2018 10:59:09 UTC+1, YTC#1 wrote:
> >> On 23/07/2018 08:50, Paul wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have a SMB share I would like to mount at boot time so I dont have to do this manually.
> >

> > Thanks Bruce, I see from your vfstab entry you have "mount at boot" set to "no" so this maybe why you needed manually intervene?
> >

> When it was yes, the system errored at boot :-(

> > Did you ever use the smbadm add-key method for the username and password authentication?

I would never think about mount a smb fs on a sun.

But under linux I do it. The problem at boot ist that on the time when the
system mounts the network (interface, nameserver, samba-nameserver) is not
ready. This affects also nfs. The solution is the option _netdev in the
fstab.
13.200.219.93:/mehdata/home /home nfs defaults,nfsvers=3,_netdev 0 0
vhrz534.services.un.de/UB_T$ /mnt/samba/tmp cifs \
credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials,uid=XYZ,gid=users,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=utf8,noserverino,_netdev 0 0

Don't know if it has effect in solaris (on linux it is also not in the man
pages).

I think its better to use the automounter for external devices. If someone
wants the directory the network is ready for the task. See

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54797/automountsharetask.html

Juergen