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My CIFS volume is not mounting automatically while boot (like other partitions). This is relevant part of my /etc/fstab:

//leonidas/files    /media/photos	cifs	credentials=/etc/samba/user,rw,uid=root,gid=samba,user,auto,noexec,suid,iocharset=utf8	0	0

When I do

sudo mount -a

It is mounted properly, but I want it to be mounted while boot. Why it is not?

My system is ubuntu 9.04.

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I don't believe networking is up at the time at the time the filesystems are mounted. NFS mounts are started by a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs. The comments in mountnfs script say it should also mount CIFS shares.

You might want to try rebooting the system and then manually running the /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs script to see if any errors are displayed. If their are errors, add them to your question.

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I'm getting such message: "* if-up.d/mountnfs[]: waiting for interface eth0 before doing NFS mounts" It is strange, because my only running eth interface is eth1. – amorfis Aug 25 '09 at 21:04
You are going to want to alter the script to reflect the interface as eth1 and not eth0 if you want it to work. – Dave Rickman Sep 6 '09 at 6:31
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