Automatically Mounting a Network Folder

John L Fjellstad john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Sun Mar 11 16:37:17 UTC 2007


David Stubblebine <dstubb.mylists at gmail.com> writes:

> The school I work in is primarily Mac OS X, and our students have  
> folders on our Mac OS X server to access their personal files.  We  
> have installed ubuntu on some older iMacs, and I would like to have  
> the User Volume automatically mount when ubuntu logs in.  I can't  
> seem to get this to work in 6.06...I would like to have an smb shared  
> volume (from a MacOS X server) mount on startup. Is that possible? I  
> can do it manually no problem, but that's a little too complicated  
> for the kids.

Edit your /etc/fstab file.
Try this
<hostname_of_server>:<directory to mount>  <dir to mount to> \
smbfs    defaults   0   0

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John L. Fjellstad
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