Re: [PLUG] Network shares not mounting automatically after NIC change

[Frank via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Oh, that's *really* ugly.  But thank you, I imagine that would 
technically work.


To be fair, though, I'd much rather just type "sudo mount -a" every time 
I start up my computer than re-mount the shares every minute!


- Frank


On 2/9/25 3:35 PM, Casey Bralla via plug wrote:
> This is a real Kludge, but you can put the mount commands into 
> /etc/crontab and remount it every minute.
>
> (I'm kinda ashamed to even suggest this since it's such an ugly 
> solution, but it will get you going until you find the real answer.)
>
> On 2/9/25 3:29 PM, Frank via plug wrote:
> > On a Linux Mint workstation, I recently switched from using wi-fi to 
> > wired Ethernet.  When I was using wi-fi, all of my network shares 
> > auto-mounted when the computer started up.  Since I've switched to 
> > wired Ethernet, none of the drives are shared when the computer 
> > starts.  I have to type "sudo mount -a" every time after this 
> > computer starts.  I suspect it's because the NIC on the motherboard 
> > is taking longer to start up and the wi-fi chip did, and it's a 
> > timing issue. All of the lines in /etc/fstab look like this:
> >
> > "//192.168.200.200/Music /mnt/Music cifs 
> > username=[username],password=[password],file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,auto 
> > 0 0"
> >
> > Is there a simple way to fix this?
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Frank
> >
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