Help with auto-mount with samba.

[x0acake]

Hello everyone.

I have edited my /etc/fstab file in order to have it automatically mount a windows network share at startup.

The problem is, that it isn't really working during startup. After I log in, in order to make it mount I have to open the terminal and enter "mount -a".

The following is my fstab file:

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Jul 19 10:38:18 2011
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_x_user-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=aef76330-25e7-4b5a-b2bc-6f76dd890c0a /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_x_user-lv_home /home                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_x_user-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
//10.0.0.2/G_DRIVE   /media/GDRIVE   cifs   guest,_netdev,gid=500,uid=500   0 0

I suspect this has something to do with my laptop not having made a network connection when the entries are mounted, but I'm not sure. How would I go about finding out about any errors that this might have happened or how would I go about fixing this?

Thank you.

[DBelton]

If using NetworkManager, make sure you have it set to Connect automatically at boot, and make it available for all users.

(If you don't make it available for all users, then it waits until a user signs in to bring up the network)

[x0acake]

Originally Posted by DBelton

If using NetworkManager, make sure you have it set to Connect automatically at boot, and make it available for all users.

(If you don't make it available for all users, then it waits until a user signs in to bring up the network)

Thanks for the reply.

It was already set for both the wireless and the wired. I guess what I should do now is check for an error log. How would I access that?

[DBelton]

errors would be logged in /var/log/messages

(You need to be root user to access the message log.)

Or you can install gnome-system-log (if you use gnome) and have a GUI log file viewer.