Auto Mounting Samba Shares in Ubuntu is Broken

The title speaks for itself. If you have auto mounting shares in your /etc/fstab the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) daemon will cause some serious malfunction. Hell, I couldn’t even ssh to the box.

Now how silly a bug is that? This is precisely the reason why I bought a MacBook Pro. No idiotic problems like this to waste my precious time on. Doesn’t matter whether it’s any flavour of BSD, Linux or Windows. There will always, or at least for the next many years to come, be lots of these little annoying bugs here and there to spend time fixing. In OS X stuff just works and you can spend your time being productive.

Bug discussion here.

A remedy of sorts (as described by some bloke in the discussion) is to add the noauto option to the Samba mounts and then mount the shares in /etc/rc.local.

I’m so happy I’m not using Linux/BSD for the desktop anymore.