[CS-FSLUG] sudo, alternatives, configurators

[l4c at thelinuxlink.net]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

> But the instant we extend to what really should be "intermediate" (not 
> advanced) usage -- mounting shares located on either an SMB NAS or Windows 
> PC, _mounting them automatically at login_ -- that simple sudo doesn't work, 
> and I don't have anything really good which does.  I spent an hour or two a 
> while back figuring out how to get 'sudo' to do this, but it was such a pain 
> in the neck, and I couldn't be sure I wasn't opening huge security 
> holes...:-(. 
> I wish one of the 'fuse' SMB filesystems would work reliably with XP Home; if 
> it would, the problem would be solved nicely.  But I wrestled with that for 
> hours a while back, and won't do it again unless informed outside input tells 
> me it's easy :-)
>
> I have even looked into NFS on XP Home (Cygwin does it supposedly, I'm not so 
> sure having tried it) and other wildcards (OpenAFS?) as ways to work around 
> Microsoft's non-self-compliant XP Home SMB, but thus far, nothing has worked 
> well.  I have thought of putting XP Pro on my wife's PC and using documented 
> methods of setting up a Linux-based Win32 domain, but this would be a very 
> complex solution for us, and would not help anyone else.
>
> Do you have a simple way to have SMB NAS or XP Home shares mount 
> automatically at login? 
> J.E.B.

Close..  Here's what I would do for "ease of use" sake..  Use either Gnome 
or KDE as the default desktop and drop a couple icons on the desktop that 
point to the cifs/smb shares.  They'll auth and mount up when you open 
them.

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