SMB + /etc/fstab + bind = pain

[8-bitDesigner]

Well, not so much pain, as a whole lot of annoying. Anyways, I've got an FTP server set up, and as its pretty skimpy on the internal hard drive space, most of the files it serves are from samba shares on the computer next to it.

Not horribly efficient, but it works.

Now, the way this is set up is via a series of smbfs entries in /etc/fstab, which mounts my remote shares. However, immediately after the smbfs lines, I have a series of bind commands to bind the newly mounted share, to a folder inside my /home/ftp directory.

This, unfortunately doesn't work when I restart my system, and I'm wagering this is because internal mounts are handled first (including my bind commands) and external mounts are handled later in the process.

Is there any easy way to handle this, short of writing a bash script to handle these bind commands on boot?

Here's the pertinent snippet from /etc/fstab

[xenoscr]

Is there a reason that you are trying to bind /mnt/share to /home/ftp/share instead of using symlink?

Also, I would recomend looking into using a credentials file for your SMB username and password instead of putting that information in your /etc/fstab file. You can limit the access the the credential file to root and root alone so prying eyes can not see your SMB ID and password.

Your fstab line would look like:

[8-bitDesigner]

Hey, thanks for the heads-up on the credentials file. I might want to try that out, and totally forgot to vet that from the post. ;)

I don't believe ProFTPd follows symlinks, which more or less leaves you with binds as your only option for directories.

[xenoscr]

Sorry I can't help with the bind thing, never tried it, but if the credentials thing helps, I did some good.

XeNoS