Mount HDD in NAS with rc.conf

[luca-b-1990]

Sorry my English is not good: (I know FreeBSD System Administrator course, on windows platform. Freebsd I liked it and I tried it once. I find it a really powerful and with so many resources. I'm already using in my small servers.

being newbie and not knowing well freebsd ask your help with this question:

How can I mount a HDD with living in a NAS, with the FAT32 file system and protected by a password for access, with rc.conf?

example of connection:

rc.conf start ---> mount HDDs on NAS (192.168.1.2) with a password to access the files in / media / NAS

please help me!

thanks

 

[wblock@]

The NAS will deal with the filesystem, so that doesn't matter. What matters is the network protocol the NAS provides. If it's SAMBA or CIFS, see mount_smbfs(8). If it's NFS, see mount_nfs(8) and the Handbook NFS chapter.

These are both mounted from /etc/fstab.

 

[luca-b-1990]

NAS uses Samba network protocol, I'm interested in using the mount_smbfs .
Is it possible to use mount_smbfs in rc.conf?

Thanks for helping me with FreeBSD

 

[wblock@]

Why can't you edit /etc/fstab?

 

[luca-b-1990]

Why can't you edit /etc/fstab?

Because the NAS is actually USB HDD adapter to NAS, the NAS is also not always online. When I have to reboot the server and the NAS is offline, fstab crashes.The server not start because the NAS is not online.

I want to use rc.conf for this, I want FreeBSD to reboot the server should fstab not crash because NAS is offline.

 

[wblock@]

Entries in /etc/fstab don't have to automount. For example,

/dev/ufs/ltotherfs      /other          ufs     rw,[color="Red"]noauto[/color]       2       2

That doesn't automount, it only mounts when I do
# mount /other

The same can be done for the NAS. In fact, it can even be automated. Write a small script that sees if the NAS is online and, if it is, uses mount_smbfs(1). Manual unmounting would be best.