From: "Chris Cheney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:15:57PM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > > > Educate the users, then? They must have been educated enough to _mount_ > > > the shares, why not unmount them? > > > > Hehehe I see you don't work in the real world.. I hear this often from Linux > > Developers, but in the real world hard enough to get them to follow simple > > rules. If they (average office user) can find a way to screw it up, assume > > they will :) > > In most offices I have worked at IT setup the shares to automatically be > mounted in windows. The user didn't even know what a share was except of > course "the files I want are on drive T". The analogue of that on Linux > would be using automount (assuming it works with cifs/smbfs) to mount > the directories when the user looks at them. So it seems the use of > Komba in normal office environment would not even be needed or wanted, > since IT probably wouldn't want users trying to snoop around in various > other shares on the network.
That doesn't follow. In every IT shop I've worked in (quite a few, since I'm a consultant) Windows mounts common shares (one, usually U:, for a personal drive, and 4 or 5 that will be either common to all users or to a given user's department). But everybody has access to "Network Neighborhood", where 'snooping' is commonplace :-) And, no I don't think automount would be the analogue on Linux. On Windows systems, those mounts are accomplished at user login time, by a script run when you try to connect to the network. The user can then choose to perform his own mounts ("map network drive"). At logout time, all shares are dismounted - and user-mounted shares _may_ be automatically remounted next login (users's choice). Of course, just because this is how windows works, doesn't mean it's the way Komba _should_ work, but I tend to agree that it should require some extra effort on a user's part to mount a persistent share as it doesn't matter how much "education" users get, they're simply not going to bother unmounting a share if they don't have to. otoh, does it really matter if mounts are ever "reaped", whether by Komba or any daemon? derek