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10.5: Automount Samba shares in leopard
Authored by: GuyGizmo on Oct 22, '08 11:28:22AM

I just tried this in Mac OS X 10.5.5 and it didn't work. At first it was giving me inconsistent errors along the lines of "/usr/sbin/x No such file", and when I tried replacing the x with the actual mount point I wanted it claimed the mount point didn't exist, even when it did. It's also given me errors pointing to "/usr/sbin/mount_url" which doesn't exist, and I don't know why.

Strangely, I just tried it again so I could copy/paste the exact error message I get into this reply but now it just silently fails. I didn't do anything different from my last attempt. In fact, my last attempt was five minutes ago in the same session. (I didn't restart my computer.)

I would love this to work, and have been looking for a method to automount samba shares at boot time since Mac OS X 10.3, but I've never, ever gotten it to work, and it surprises me that people here don't seem to be having any trouble with it. What on earth am I doing wrong?



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10.5: Automount Samba shares in leopard
Authored by: astateofwork on Nov 10, '08 09:32:13PM

I was also having this problem on 10.5.5. I located mount_url by doing a find for it however (its at /usr/libexec/mount_url ) and created a symbolic link to it. That didn't fix the problem however, and Google isn't being any help. Is it just not possible to automount samba/cifs shares in 10.5.5?



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