On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Martín Cigorraga <msx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On 01/08/2013 05:39 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: > > > > I want my media pc to automatically mount several samba shares when > > > they're > > > > accessed. > > > > > Is that even possible? Because the way Samba protocol works it might be > some time > (as much as some good 10 minutes, may be a little more) until the shares > are up and > ready to be accessed on the network. This is not the case with NFSv4 in > which case > AutoFS will find and mount instantly any share providing the NFS server is > up, of course. > OTOH if the NFS server is down when you try to access it via AutoFS the NFS > client > on your machine will initiate the Stall of Death, but that's another song > :p > > I don't know. For me it works pretty quickly. Haven't noticed any giant delays. > > Good news was that I was able to get a systemd share.mount unit working > > with a wol.service unit. Starting the mount unit will correctly start the > > wol.service unit and wake the machine using the magic packet. What I > > haven't got working is the automount: So far it only tries to mount the > > share, but not activate the wol.service unit. Perhaps the automount units > > also needs to depend on the wol.service? > > > > Sander > > > > Since I'm migrating my network shares everywhere from NFS to Samba (the > later being > slower but more reliable) I'm most interested in the work you've done, can > you post the > units back? > I'm still suffering from the suspend/problem I mentioned before (although not all the time), but so far I have the following units files and as long my computer resumes fine, it all seems to work: wol-anathem.service: --------------------------- [Unit] Description=Wake-on-Lan Anathem Requires=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/wol MACADDRESS Type=oneshot mnt-anathem.mount: --------------------------- [Mount] What=//ANATHEM/mysharename Where=/mnt/anathem Type=cifs Options=ip=192.168.1.42,sec=none [Unit] Requires=wol-anathem.service After=wol-anathem.service mnt-anathem.automount: --------------------------- [Automount] Where=/mnt/anathem [Unit] Requires=wol-anathem.service After=wol-anathem.service
