auto-mount cifs partition via samba

[Derek Broughton]

Brian McKee wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:02 AM, John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:

>>> Cron?  I suppose a Windows machine must broadcast _something_ when it
>>> comes up,
> {insert humour here - the possibilites are endless :-}

Oops. :-)

>> The other option would
>> be to use autofs (apt-get autofs). Auto-fs waits until you try to read
>> the remote mount to mount it. If you have a fast network it is pretty
>> quick.
> 
> It'll also drop unused mounts after a while if you like.
 
Cool.  I installed it, because I have the same need, but haven't tried it
yet.
-- 
derek