<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>thank you all of you. The use of csync + the pam auth module is exactly what I was looking for. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.csync.org/userguide/index.html">http://www.csync.org/userguide/index.html</a> Arnaud </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><hr size="1">From: Arnaud G <lepelerin2002@yahoo.com> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 9:49:35 AM Subject: Re: automatically mount network drive - 10.04 LTS <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div> </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><hr size="1">From: Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> 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 <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lepelerin2002@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:lepelerin2002@yahoo.com">lepelerin2002@yahoo.com</a>> 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 ><a target="_blank" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=637258">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=637258</a> >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 </div></div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body></html>