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

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025, 15:38 Frank via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

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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