[SOLVED] mounting windows network share: connection timed out

[thorBjorn]

I'm trying to mount a windows share network drive (on a university's server) using Ubuntu 10.04. I'd like to make it a permanent mount, so I've added to etc/fstab, but am having problems with the following error:

mount error(110): Connection timed out
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Here's what I've done so far:
My /etc/fstab has:

//files.school.edu/shared    /mnt/shared   cifs   noauto,user,username=username,uid=user,gid=group,mode=700,filemode=600   0 0

I have smbfs installed. I've created mnt/shared. Then from

sudo mount /mnt/shared

I type in my password, wait awhile, then get the "Connection timed out" error message above.

I've solved a couple of problems already to get here, but my ignorance has kept me from getting further. Any ideas? I'll be more than happy to post some output - let me know what I should be looking at. Thanks.

[thorBjorn]

After doing what I describe above, I rebooted my computer, and the share still did not mount. However, I started it up this morning, and everything worked. Great!

If you're looking to do something like this, try what I've done above. It worked for me!

bjorn