How do you automatically mount a Samba share?

[Colin Yates]

Shawn,

I think you have an excellent point.  It seems that you are not asking
how to mount a samba share, rather you are asking how ubuntu suggest
doing it in a "user friendly" way.

Unfortunately at the moment, neither samba or gnome allow you to use
samba mounts as mentioned, hence xandros added that functionality to
xfm.

I didn't get the "user friendly" emphasis until just now ;)

But, yes, I think you have an excellent point, and it is worth putting
that in bold for us techies :)

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 08:34 -0400, Shawn Milo wrote:

> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:05 -0400, Shawn Milo wrote:
> > > > > I know how to do it from the command line, but I want the shares to
> > > > > automatically mount to directories under my home directory every time
> > > > > I log on. Also, I want to be prompted for the password, unless it is the
> > > > > same password I am using to log on to Ubuntu.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Do not tell me to add the lines to fstab -- it is bad practice to hard-code
> > > > > passwords like that. What is the "proper" way to do this in Ubuntu? The
> > > > > way a "desktop user" should be able to do it, without having to resort
> > > > > to the command line?
> > > > 
> > > > I think linneighbhood will do the trick. apt-get it!
> > > > 
> > > > -fabio
> > > > 
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> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, it will do that.  I've used that in the past.  But I would still have
> > > to launch LinNeighborhood every time I log in.  No good.  Is there
> > > no automatic way in Gnome or Ubuntu to do this?  
> > > 
> > > Shawn
> > > 
> > 
> > You said you can do it from the command line. so just create a script
> > which do the trick and add it in "Startup Programs" at gnome-session-
> > manager. If you don't know how to make a script, you just need to create
> > a text file with each command you need to type in a different line and
> > put #!/bin/bash in the 1st line. Mark this file as executable (either in
> > nautilus or by chmod +x filename.
> > 
> > -Fabio
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> This still does not satisfy the condition of not putting the password(s)
> into a text file. The password should come from the the one I used to
> log on to Ubuntu, and failing that, I should be prompted.
> 
> I know I can write a script to run the smbmount commands at log on, and
> to unmount at log off, but there should be a better way to do this. Think
> "ordinary desktop users." My wife, your mother, the friend who is new to
> computers. You can't tell them to write a bash script. It would take longer
> for them to get the smbmount syntax right than a fresh installation of 
> Windows, and they may never go back.
> 
> Do the Ubuntu developers watch this list? If not, where can I contact them
> to make this suggestion formally?
> 
> I am not trying to be deliberately dense. I've written scripts to start at log-on,
> and I've used LinNeighborhood. I've done these things in Slackware, because
> that is a non-user-friendly environment, and I knew that going in. I wouldn't 
> suggest Slackware to a non-geek. But these methods are just not good enough
> for the ordinary desktop computer user. If Ubuntu does not handle this in a
> simple way, it should.
> 
> Jeff: Is this what you were referring to when you wrote this in response to
> an earlier post?
> 
> <quote>
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:12 +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote:
> > Beware: The share is only visible through nautilus. Thus, if you try to
> > save a document from OpenOffice you can't save it directly to the
> > share.
> >
> > Which is, by the way, somewhat annoying.
> 
> This will most likely be dealt with in HoaryHedgehog.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
> Ooh, ooh, ooh! http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu!
> 
> </quote>
> 
> Shawn
> 
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