Alvin Murphy wrote:
> I can connect to the other machines by
> smbmount, but since this is a laptop, I would like to be able to copy
> the files to carry with me.
Automount might be a solution for ya.
Here's my (sloppy?) setup:
attached rc.auto_mount would goto /etc/rc.d, it's the start / stop / restart
script
it looks for config files in /etc/auto_mount (make sure those config files are
only readble by the user that start automount)
here's an example of the config files:
win1.auto
==================
OUNTPOINT=/mnt/winmachine1
TIMEOUT=60
==================
win1.map
==================
c -fstype=smbfs,username=JD,password=passwerd ://winmachine1/C\$
root -fstype=smbfs,username=JD,password=passwerd ://winmachine1/root
==================
please notice the \ before $, its an escape character, not knowing it is
supposed to be there caused me lots of headaches!
and then u can make nice little links (shotcuts) to /mnt/winmachine1/c on your
KDE desktop.
every time u (or an application) access the directory it will mount the share
and dismount it after u dont access it for a minute
eh.. make sure you have automount installed
#!/bin/bash
autofs_start() {
for mountspec in $(/bin/ls /etc/auto_mount/*.auto)
do
source $mountspec
MOUNT_BASE=${mountspec%.auto}
echo -e "\nStarting automount for group ${MOUNT_BASE##*/} ..."
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=${TIMEOUT} $MOUNTPOINT file \
$MOUNT_BASE.map
done
}
autofs_stop() {
echo -en "Stopping automount ..."
/bin/killall -USR1 automount
/bin/killall automount
}
autofs_restart() {
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
}
case "$1" in
'start')
autofs_start
;;
'stop')
autofs_stop
;;
'restart')
autofs_restart
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 <start|stop|restart>"
esac
