Mounting a shared folder in everyone's home directory

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

> 5.  sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //localhost/dogimages /media/dogimages

Or stick that in /etc/fstab


> 
> My next step (I'm not in a rush to do this) is that I will want to be 
> able to fine tune on whose desktop this shows up.  I want to be able to 
> manage this by group membership.  In other words I've got a group on my 
> server called, "period2".  I want to similarly mount a shared folder on 
> the desktop of just members of that group.  Is it very complex task?
> 

Are you running Hardy and KDE 3.5? kiosktool makes it easy to customize 
desktops based on groups. You can control what they see like whether 
they can see shares. Otherwise, it would probably involve some serious 
scripting.