Ubuntu – Automount of CIFS share fails during boot while mount -a works after login

I am trying to automatically mount a CIFS share on a Synology NAS during boot time. I am on a 14.04 LTS Workstation.

Everything works fine when I manually mount the share using the fstab entry, however, I have to repeat this step every time I am logged in.

I installed the cifs-utils and amended the fstab as follows:

//192.168.0.xxx/share /Volumes/share cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/var/xxx/.smb 0 0

.smb contains the username= and passwd= settings, different locations were tried.

The entry seems to work as I can either use mount -a or mount /Volumes/share to successfully mount the share.

Any ideas, why the automount during boot fails? So far I've tried various solutions including the _netdev option, which does however seem to break the entry.

TIA for your answers.

Best Answer

thanks zhongfu, this was the path to the solution.

I had to change the arch-script to this to work:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$2" = "up" ]
   then
    mount /Volumes/share &
fi

location of the script:

/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/

Owner: root, mode 755

Now it works like a charm :-)

BTW: it could be related to my system booting off an SSD, the network actually is started after the login prompt is displayed

thanks again :-)