Auto NFS Mounting

[James Michael Fultz]

* Ken Adams <adams.ken.j at googlemail.com> [2009-09-28 21:04 +0100]:
>Server - 3 nfs exports setup to share over the home network.  
>Laptop - I use this to do all my work Wireless Access - Used to 
>connect my laptop to the lan and internet when I am at home. 
> 
>If I only used my laptop at home, I could add the nfs shares to 
>my /etc/fstab file to automatically mount the shares on boot. As 
>I use the laptop away from home, this would understandably cause 
>problems. 

You could look into autofs for automounting.

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs>

>I have set NM to manually set the IP number when it connects via 
>my home access point. 
> 
>Is there a way I can run a script whenever my laptop connects to 
>the home AP. In this script I could then mount the nfs shares. 

If you use the system network interfaces configuration file 
('/etc/network/interfaces') for an interface, you can call 
scripts for a particular interface configuration when it is 
activated.  See the documentation for interfaces(5) if you want 
to know more about it.  Any interface configured in the system 
network interfaces configuration is not managed by 
NetworkManager, so that is something else to consider.

This seems to go into pretty good detail if you were interested 
going the route using '/etc/networking/interfaces':  
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkConfigurationCommandLine/Automatic>