# mount CIFS share at boot
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-cifs-share-at-boot/21608
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot
**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-cifs-share-at-boot/21608 "2011-09-03T18:16:01Z")
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### Author:  [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-cifs-share-at-boot/21608/1 "2011-09-03T18:16:01Z")
Hello everybody,
is there a possibility to mount a cifs share automagicaly at boot
time?
Redhat has a netfs scripts which handles cifs mounts (and other network
filesystems).
In SLES11SP1 I didn’t find a similar script. Do I have to write my own
script, or is there a feature which I don’t know?
Sincerely
Bernhard
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-cifs-share-at-boot/21608/2 "2011-09-05T10:56:02Z")
Hi
You can put a line with the correct mount.cifs-syntax in /etc/fstab.
Regards,
Tom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-cifs-share-at-boot/21608/3 "2011-09-07T23:36:02Z")
That’s exactly what I did, but when I reboot the machine the CIFS share
is not mounted.
Which rc-script does the actual mount?
Sincerely
Bernhard
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-cifs-share-at-boot/21608/4 "2011-09-08T08:16:02Z")
You need also to install the samba-client-package.
## Code:
## $ zypper install samba-client
This package installs a new init-script (/etc/init.d/smbfs), which
mounts all cifs-shares registered in /etc/fstab (after
network-startup…of course) ;-).
Regards,
Tom
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