Resolved: Re: automatically mount network drive - 10.04 LTS

[Arnaud G]

thank you all of you.

The use of csync + the pam auth module is exactly what I was looking for.

http://www.csync.org/userguide/index.html

Arnaud




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From: Arnaud G <lepelerin2002 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 9:49:35 AM
Subject: Re: automatically mount network drive - 10.04 LTS







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From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
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Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 5:34:37 AM
Subject: Re: automatically mount network drive - 10.04 LTS

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
>


I will try that seems like I have an almost working solution here. I will let  
you know how it goes.

Tx again for your help

A


      
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