[clue-tech] user mounts

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Dec 8 14:46:14 MST 2006


David L. Willson wrote:
> I am constantly annoyed by the fact that users can't mount.
> 
> 1) I have 6 or so Windows shares to connect to everywhere I work, and I'd like to just
> write a script that connects them all, so I can just work, without messing around a lot.
>  I tried having root write the script for me and doing a setuid, but setuid seems to be
> ignored on shell-scripts.  (Kinda makes sense, actually.)

If the network's an internal and secured one, this kinda screams for 
automount -- but you said "Windows" mounts, so hmm...

(google...google... ahhh...)

The Gentoo folks seem to have some notes on mixing automount and Samba 
that look relatively "sane"... or as sane as automounting to Windows 
ever can be!

:-)

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Auto_mount_filesystems_(AUTOFS)

Nate



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