Mounting a shared folder in everyone's home directory

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, April 26, 2010 11:41 AM, David Groos wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to put a bunch of images in a shared folder that would
> automatically mount on all students' desktops.  I've already made a
> shared folder.  When I google I see lots of info on SAMBA, NSF as well
> as mounting drives and partitions.  I don't want all that--just a simple
> folder auto-mounted on all users desktops with read only access.  Any help?
>


'Global' mount in fstab and put a symlink on their Desktop (create one 
time for all current users, fix up /etc/skel for new ones)

That would be the way I would do it.