On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:26:57 -0500 multi <multi@...> wrote: > Actually, the first thing I did was put the line in fstab. Curiously, it > would not mount the shared folder at boot time, but after it was booted, > I could mount it with 'mount -a'. I thought maybe fstab was being read > before the ethernet connection was established. > > But, I didn't pursue this because the remote folder is not always > available at bot time. Depends on which computer is booted first. So I > still needed to mount it later, which I do have now. fstab doesnt necessary means boot time :) You cant put something like this in it 192.168.1.254:/nas /mnt/nas nfs4 rw,hard,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,relatime,user,noauto 0 0 it wont try to connect at boot time and you will be able to mount it as user with a simple "mount /mnt/nas" without the need of sudo and passwords. > > The autofs looks like it might be helpful. Thank you for mentioning it. > -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)