CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101

[robrand]

Having problems auto mounting a CIFS share. These are the errors I get from the kern.log:
20.718374] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
[ 20.718377] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101

and here is the fstab entry:
//10.10.1.11/music /rob_diskstation/mnt cifs _netdev,,credentials=/home/randellr/.smbcredentials,uid=1000 0 0
I can mount the share manually...I am I missing something?
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Rubberman]

I don't understand why you have an empty option in the fstab entry (the dual ,, entry):


//10.10.1.11/music /rob_diskstation/mnt cifs _netdev,,credentials=/home/randellr/.smbcredentials,uid=1000 0 0

should be (I think)


//10.10.1.11/music /rob_diskstation/mnt cifs _netdev,credentials=/home/randellr/.smbcredentials,uid=1000 0 0

[robrand]

Rubberman...Thanks for the reply. The extra comma in the fstab was a typo. I removed it but the results were the same. Any other suggestion would be greatly appreciated. BTW I'm using 11.04 if that helps.

[Rubberman]

Sorry. My latest Ubuntu is 10.10. I'm not brave enough to try 11.04 yet, other than in a virtual machine (when I get around to it).

[HROAdmin26]

You have a socket error...and are trying to mount a network share at bootup...but can mount it after the system boots without a problem.

=> The network is likely not available yet when this mount is attempted.

You may need to delay the mount - possibly put the mount command in the /etc/rc.local file which should run after the "runlevel" is reached.

[robrand]

HROAdmin26 thanks for your help in this matter. Mounting the share drive using the /etc//rc.local file seems to work well and solves my boot problem.