Remote file opening problem [solved]

[jpmartin]

So i've read elswhere that fstab was readed too early in the boot process to get any network drive mounted...

 

The solution would be to have an autostart - as Yves had mentioned - but the problem i see is that only the root user can mount a drive once the system is up...

 

Now i see that this might be another thread, i'll let the moderator decide, but in the mean time if you have any thoughts i'd be interested.

 

jp

[jpmartin]

Ok, problem solved completely.

 

So to open remote files (.xls, .doc, etc) on a windows server...

 

1. you have to mount the drive - just connecting to it won't work.

2. you'll want to automate the mounting at bootup.

 

For #2 simple solution :

1st : have your system recognize the remote drive using Samba config in Mandriva Control Center... After this step, it sould look something like this in the etc/fstab file :

UUID=1151304d-0810-4b44-8059-fe9f6ddd14aa / ext3 defaults 1 1

//server0/data /home/jp/data cifs domain=cora,user=user,pass=pass 0 0

 

2nd : add a mount command, which should look something like this[ mount -t cifs //server/data /home/data -o user=user,pass=pass ], to the S99local script in etc/rc5.d folder and give "execute read and write" wrights to the S99local script with the chmon 755 command.

 

And Voilà !

 

jpm

Edited August 19, 2008 by jpmartin

[ianw1974]

That file is probably a symlink to /etc/rc.local which is where I normally put some additional local stuff unique to me that I can't get to run anywhere else.