Bugzilla – Bug 218180
smbfs mount point does not work
Last modified: 2006-12-10 04:55:15 UTC
fstab mount points using the "noauto" or the "user" options simply do not work. I simply could not believe that. When writing auto instead of noauto everything works.
Please, could you attach the /var/log/messages? Thank you.
Please reopen the bug when you'll provide the needed information. Thank you.
fstab entry: ... ... smbfs gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,guest,noauto,user 0 0 /var/log/messages: Dec 4 18:44:59 sonic kernel: smbfs: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. Dec 4 18:44:59 sonic kernel: smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noexec
The noauto smbfs fstab option works fine in Debian Etch, Ubuntu 6.10 and Mandriva 2007. CIFS is not yet mature enough to replace SMBFS.
Even before smbfs was dropped from SUSE, noauto produced mount failure as described in bug 118635. This failure dates back to at least v8.2.