NFS/CIFS/iSCSI exports/shares are not automatically mounted at boot on a RHEL client

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • NFS share is not mounting correctly at boot time as specified in fstab file.
  • Unable to mount nfs share at boot time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.
  • NFS/SMBFS mounts do not mount when the system boots up, however, running the following command after boot works to mount the NFS or SMBFS shares:

    # mount -a 
    

    Need to know why NFS mounts didn't mount after reboot.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • NFS v3
  • NFS v4
  • Samba filesystem
  • Filesystems on block-devices depending on networking (e.g. iSCSI)

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