[CS-FSLUG] sudo, alternatives, configurators
Jonathan E. Brickman
jeb at joshuacorps.org
Sun Jan 11 07:58:15 CST 2009
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>> 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.
Now, now, Linc, that's not really close and you know it :-) That gives
me a degree of access, but then I have to tapdance through Gnome or KDE
internals to use those icons like the fake mounts they are. I don't
want fake mounts; I want real mounts. Anything else is an automatic
bug-spawner not at all transportable across desktop environments.
Mount-fakery is frankly one of the things I find most foolish about both
Gnome and KDE. It is very deceptive to a newby. They think they're
getting a working mount, and on some distros it works for a few apps --
but breaks on most, and then they try command-line and the house of
flashpaper-cards flashes to ash. Blaugh.
I'll probably try the FUSE SMB filesystems again. I saw something
recent which said one of them was working.
J.E.B.
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