Fedora 8 and samba - am I missing something?

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi,

I have some about samba client issues I found in Fedora 8. I'm not a
real admin so I'm probably doing something wrong, but here
is my experience.

I setup samba mount points in /etc/fstab and if I enable netfs service
to start in runlevel 3 that it fails becase network is up only when
you log in  and gnome starts NetworkManager. There are ways of putting
scripts in NetworkDispatch (but selinux first needs to be disabled
because it prevents those scripts from running) folder so that when
NEtworkManager starts netfs service starts and mounts samba shares but
this fails on shutdown becasuse network goes down before samba shares
are unmounted.

This is a laptop and I need NetworkManager because of it's wireless
magic so turning it off is not an option.

Is there some way of using samba shares with NetworkManager that you know about?

Cheers,
Valent.

[Henning Larsen]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:14 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some about samba client issues I found in Fedora 8. I'm not a
> real admin so I'm probably doing something wrong, but here
> is my experience.
>
> I setup samba mount points in /etc/fstab and if I enable netfs service
> to start in runlevel 3 that it fails becase network is up only when

if you start netfs in runlevel 3, it will not run in runlevel 5 unless
enabled there too.

If you start in runlevel 5, and mount the shares from within X I think
it will be ok

Henning Larsen

[nirbhay jain]

I don't have any suggestions for your mails. so i request to you don't send
mail to me

thanks!

On Feb 1, 2008 6:27 PM, Henning Larsen  wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:14 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some about samba client issues I found in Fedora 8. I'm not a
> > real admin so I'm probably doing something wrong, but here
> > is my experience.
> >
> > I setup samba mount points in /etc/fstab and if I enable netfs service
> > to start in runlevel 3 that it fails becase network is up only when
>
> if you start netfs in runlevel 3, it will not run in runlevel 5 unless
> enabled there too.
>
> If you start in runlevel 5, and mount the shares from within X I think
> it will be ok
>
> Henning Larsen
>
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[Henning Larsen]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 18:51 +0530, nirbhay jain wrote:
> I don't have any suggestions for your mails. so i request to you don't
> send mail to me
>
> thanks!

What exactly do you mean, you are on a mailing-list

Henning Larsen
>

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:27 +0100, Henning Larsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 18:51 +0530, nirbhay jain wrote:
> > I don't have any suggestions for your mails. so i request to you don't
> > send mail to me
> >
> > thanks!
>
> What exactly do you mean, you are on a mailing-list

See, Henning? A Top-poster. What do you expect? <cackles> :) Ric

[Valent Turkovic]

On Feb 1, 2008 1:57 PM, Henning Larsen  wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:14 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some about samba client issues I found in Fedora 8. I'm not a
> > real admin so I'm probably doing something wrong, but here
> > is my experience.
> >
> > I setup samba mount points in /etc/fstab and if I enable netfs service
> > to start in runlevel 3 that it fails becase network is up only when
>
> if you start netfs in runlevel 3, it will not run in runlevel 5 unless
> enabled there too.
>
> If you start in runlevel 5, and mount the shares from within X I think
> it will be ok

The  way I found out it works half-way is that I have made a script in
NetworkDispatch folder so that NetworkManager starts netfs service
when eth0 goes UP. The problem is with samba mounts when I reboot that
NetworkManager kills the network first and then looks for commands in
NetworkDispatch folder - and tries to unmount samba shares.

This doesn't work.

Is there a better way under fedora 8 to mount and unmount samba shares
with NetwoekManager. Disabling NetworkManager is not an option.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Valent.

[Henning Larsen]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:44 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Is there a better way under fedora 8 to mount and unmount samba shares
> with NetwoekManager. Disabling NetworkManager is not an option.
>
> Any ideas?

I use gnome, under Places menu I have 'Connect to server', try that.
a link is then created on the desktop.

Henning Larsen

[Valent Turkovic]

On Feb 1, 2008 6:31 PM, Henning Larsen  wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:44 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Is there a better way under fedora 8 to mount and unmount samba shares
> > with NetwoekManager. Disabling NetworkManager is not an option.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> I use gnome, under Places menu I have 'Connect to server', try that.
> a link is then created on the desktop.

Do you use NetworkManager? Do samba mount points you have on your
desktop unmount before NetworkManager shuts down network interfaces on
reboot?