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[tm]

Good Morning to All
    I hope this is in the correct forum. I have been with you for years and have a working knowledge of GUI-kde.  I have a freenas server that I backup data from time to time. The problem is when I boot my system up the server is unmounted. I go into console as root and type" mount -t nfs 192.xxx.xxx.xxx:/mnt/server /mnt and all is fine . The server is ready to go. Is there some kind of SCRIPT (I know the word but have no idea how it works or what to do) that I can just start to mount the server . Any other thoughts would be appreciated. I realize this is not a specific software problem but this particular forum has been extremely helpful in my pclinux education
                                                                                                                                    tom

[Just17]

Configue your computer (PCC) - Network Sharing - access whatever type share the NAS is using?

In this case NFS 

[The Chief]

Good Morning to All
    I hope this is in the correct forum. I have been with you for years and have a working knowledge of GUI-kde.  I have a freenas server that I backup data from time to time. The problem is when I boot my system up the server is unmounted. I go into console as root and type" mount -t nfs 192.xxx.xxx.xxx:/mnt/server /mnt and all is fine . The server is ready to go. Is there some kind of SCRIPT (I know the word but have no idea how it works or what to do) that I can just start to mount the server . Any other thoughts would be appreciated. I realize this is not a specific software problem but this particular forum has been extremely helpful in my pclinux education
                                                                                                                                    tom

The simplest way might be to add the known working mount command (from above) to the end of the file "/etc/rc.local"

That's what I did.   You'll need root privileges to edit it.  Make sure you leave a blank line at the end of the file.

[Roc4fun]

Hi Chief,  I'm interested in your tip about mounting from rc.local.  Would I need to manually umount the share on reboot or shutdown?

TIA,

Dave

[The Chief]

Hi Chief,  I'm interested in your tip about mounting from rc.local.  Would I need to manually umount the share on reboot or shutdown?

Nope.  rc.local gets executed on start up.  It is the script for any local customizations you want to run on each start up.  Unmounting isn't necessary, as that is automatic.  All mounted volumes are unmounted  (dismounted?) as part of normal shutdown.

[tm]

Chief  
  I am a little confused about your statement . Could you please write it out. this is on the mount -t nfs 192.xxx.xxx:/mnt/server  /mnt (command )  Thanks  tom

[Roc4fun]

Hi tm,  What Chief is saying is to insert your working mount command as a line in your /etc/rc.local file.  You will have to edit it as root.  Chief suggests leaving a blank line at the end of the file.  On subsequent reboots your share should be auto mounted.

If your command works for you, great.  I'm not a command line guru, but my understanding of mounting network shares looks like this...

"mount -t file-system //ipaddress/share /mount/point"

HTH,

Dave

[The Chief]

I'm not a command line guru, but my understanding of mounting network shares looks like this...

"mount -t file-system //ipaddress/share /mount/point"

Neither am I, but I just used (in rc.local):

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# Force mounting of the NAS folders.
mount //192.168.1.30/chuck
mount //192.168.1.30/Public

One public folder, one private folder.  But, that works, probably, because I also added them to fstab:

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# Entries for MyBookLive :
//192.168.1.30/Public /home/chuck/NAS-Public cifs username=chuck,password=boogie,uid=chuck,defaults 0 0
//192.168.1.30/chuck /home/chuck/NAS-Chuck cifs username=chuck,password=boogie,uid=chuck,defaults 0 0

Since I did  that, it might well have also been possible to have them automount from fstab, same as the partitions on the internal hard drive, but I knew I could force it in rc.local, and it works just fine.  I also could have placed the mount points elsewhere, in /mnt or /media, for example.

Mu original point was that anything that works from the command line, will work exactly the same when placed in rc.local.

[tm]

to all
    tried it in rc.local but no luck. there was a file in the same folder "nfs server" installed it in there and it worked perfectly. Thanks ,you all are the best
                                     tom

[The Chief]

to all
    tried it in rc.local but no luck. there was a file in the same folder "nfs server" installed it in there and it worked perfectly. Thanks ,you all are the best
                                     tom

Glad we were able to help.