Automount of Samba shares not working in 10.04 32bit

**EarlsFurniture** · February 18th, 2011

I'm having an automount problem on Ubuntu 10.04 32bit. The smb shares will not mount on login, and I have to use:

Code:

sudo mount -a

(and enter the password for each share, rather than just once, very odd)

Here's a sample share mount from fstab. (I have six of these)

Code:

# share-name on /mnt/samba/share-name
//serverIP/share-name /mnt/samba/share-name smbfs defaults    0    0

Note, I also can't use the server 'name' but rather am forced to use the IP address for this to work. (no biggie, just a quirk)

The shares are served by Ubuntu Server 10.04 64bit and reside in the /srv/samba tree there with each share a separate folder in that tree. (i.e. /srv/samba/share-name)

Any ideas?

**sikander3786** · February 18th, 2011

I hope this one will help you.

http://ubuntu4beginners.blogspot.com...rmanently.html

**EarlsFurniture** · February 26th, 2011

Thanks, that what I used to use but I had permission issues.

I'll try it again.

I thought cifs was depricated. That's why I switched it to smbfs.

Or do I not understand something correctly?

I noticed that article was posted 1/25/11 which is pretty new. But the Ubuntu Wiki says to use smbfs instead. hmmm....