01-07-2015, 07:38 PM
Many thanks again, Dave:
Your suggestions made a lot of sense, especially the one about maybe I was creating a problem by trying to mount directly to the /mnt folder.
Unfortunately, strangely, or whatever, NEITHER of the changes you suggested made any difference.
It tried them incrementally, first adding the sec=ntlm switch, and tested just by adding to the rc.local file and rebooting. Nothing - did not mount.
I think executed the same command (sudo mount...... with the ntlm switch set from terminal.
Same result as before - error message on the first try, then on the second try it mounted.
I then tried your suggestion about mounting to the home directory.
Didn't work from rc.local, then when I tried it from the command line (after first creating a directory in my home folder of the same name) I got the same result.
Same error on first pass , then on second try i worked flawlessly.
I am sorry to be asking such a precise question and to take up so much of your time. Maybe someone else will profit from this somewhere down the road. I am a classic windows refugee trying to make a small office network work, and maybe I am doing something that others will stumble on as well.
Your suggestions made a lot of sense, especially the one about maybe I was creating a problem by trying to mount directly to the /mnt folder.
Unfortunately, strangely, or whatever, NEITHER of the changes you suggested made any difference.
It tried them incrementally, first adding the sec=ntlm switch, and tested just by adding to the rc.local file and rebooting. Nothing - did not mount.
I think executed the same command (sudo mount...... with the ntlm switch set from terminal.
Same result as before - error message on the first try, then on the second try it mounted.
I then tried your suggestion about mounting to the home directory.
Didn't work from rc.local, then when I tried it from the command line (after first creating a directory in my home folder of the same name) I got the same result.
Same error on first pass , then on second try i worked flawlessly.
I am sorry to be asking such a precise question and to take up so much of your time. Maybe someone else will profit from this somewhere down the road. I am a classic windows refugee trying to make a small office network work, and maybe I am doing something that others will stumble on as well.