automatically mount network drive - 10.04 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 15 February 2011 01:58, Arnaud G <lepelerin2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am back to the drawing board. Below is what I need to accomplish. I have
> been looking around, trying different solutions, experimenting but so far I
> am not satisfied with the result I got.
>
> We are migrating people, in my university, to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. On the
> "desktop" side (approx 500 users) LTSP will be used. It works. So far so
> good.
> By default everything is saved under their "Documents" folder.
>
> My problem is about the laptop users. They will have 10.04 LTS installed on
> their machine.  When they use their laptop their work is saved by default in
> their "Documents" folder. So far everything is good.
> I would like to synchronize their laptop "Documents" folder to their network
> drive "Documents" folder. I can use rsync for that once their network drive
> is "mounted". I could use something similar to that in their .bashrc or
> write a little script

This might be useful
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=637258
It describes a script that monitors access to a server and when it
becomes available it mounts the specified folders.  I think one could
easily add your sync requirements into that.

Alternatively can Dropbox or Ubuntu One be used to sync multiple users
onto one server?  I do not know but I feel it should be possible.
Then they would not even need to connect to the server to sync.

Colin

Colin