[CS-FSLUG] sudo, alternatives, configurators

[l4c at thelinuxlink.net]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.

Why not just make s script to do it then?

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /home/username/mymount
sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /home/username/mymount -o uid=username

Then have your user run that script to initiate their mount. 
Alternatively, you can add the password into that script as well and use 
the whole thing as a startup script.  Of course you could also just put 
the necessary info into the /etc/fstab.

-- 
-Linc Fessenden

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