network drives & wireless

[Colin Law]

On 16 December 2010 21:53, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to configure ubuntu to connect to some cifs shares over a
> wireless connection, I realise that if I want this to be done automatically
> they must have entries in fstab but this causes the system to hang as
> network manages has not started and the computer has no network connections.
> to solve this problem I have installed wicd which detects my wireless
> network but will not connect to it.
> could anybody sujest how to overcome this problem, I realise that simply
> mounting the drives after nm has started would work however it would need
> non root users to be able to mount drives which would be a MAJOR security
> risk. for this system manually entering commands on startup is not an option
> as it will be a keyboard- and mouse-less system controlled by a blue-tooth
> remote.

I use this method http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=637258 to
automount the shares when the machine becomes accessible.  It is also
useful in a wired network where machines may not be powered up, it
unmounts when the machine becomes unavailable and re-mounts when it
appears again.  It works very well.

I don't know why wicd would not work for you, most (including myself)
find it more reliable than NM.

Colin

>
> thanks in advance for all the help
> Jacob Mansfield
> Programmer
>
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