Here is my current /etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/sh -e



# Test 1

echo line1 > /home/myHome/rclog.txt



# the mount

mount /mnt/mediaDrive &> /home/myHome/mountlog.txt



# Test 2

echo line2 >> /home/myHome/rclog.txt



exit 0

The /mnt/mediaDrive is a noauto in fstab. It is a network share, hence the mount in rc.local.

The mount in the above script does not work at boot. After boot, the rclog.txt file contains both line1 and line2, and the mountlog.txt file is empty. This would indicate that all commands in the script were run successfully, however, the drive is not mounted.

Running sudo /etc/rc.local manually in a terminal does mount the network share.

There is nothing relevant in /var/syslog that I can see, and permissions for rc.local are 755. The relevant fstab entry:

//192.168.1.100/home  /mnt/mediaDrive  cifs  noauto,credentials=/home/myHome/.mediaCredentials,uid=myName,gid=myGroup  0  0

What's going on here?