Re: fstab automount of a mdns samba share

[François Cami <fcami@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:05 PM Julian Sikorski <belegdol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I am trying to set up an automount of my samba share. It works when I go
> by the IP address, i.e.
>
> //192.168.0.220/julian /mnt/openmediavault    cifs
> credentials=/home/julas/.credentials,uid=julas,gid=julas,vers=3.1.1,nobrl,auto
> 0 0

If this is in fstab, it's different from autofs/automount.
Try adding _netdev to mount options.

François

> but if I try to replace the IP address with odroidxu4.local, the mount
> will fail at boot. It appears that mdns is not working at the time the
> mount is attempted as running mount -a afterwards works just fine. What
> would be the proper way of setting this up? Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> Julian
>