[CS-FSLUG] sudo, alternatives, configurators
l4c at thelinuxlink.net
l4c at thelinuxlink.net
Sat Jan 10 21:34:38 CST 2009
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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