Re: [LUG] Mounting

Martin, thanks for the advice. I have Natty, so I think I'll leave this method for now, and I don't like the idea of my password in a file.

Cheers.

Jack.

> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:11:21 +0100
> From: martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting
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> On 17/06/11 12:25, Jack Oley wrote:
> > Hi all. Can anyone tell me how I can 'permanently' mount access in
> > Ubuntu so it can see the Windows My Documents (or whatever)?
> > Currently, each time I or my daughter logs on and try to access this
> > folder, I have to enter my password. I've looked in the Sybex Linux
> > book, but still cannot suss this out. Many thanks. Jack.
> A quick google gave me this
> [http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configure-a-system-to-automount-a-samba-share-with-etcfstab/]
> where you can add the user & password to the declaration in fstab.
>
> Be warned though. There's an open Ubuntu bug for samba shares not being
> dismounted in the correct order when shutting down the computer causing
> it to (seemingly) hang for ages before giving up and shutting down. As
> an aside, this bug has been around for years with no progress apart from
> work-arounds for various Ubuntu releases. I think Natty now has a
> problem in that even those work-arounds don't. I gave up on this a long
> time ago and enabled NFS on my server whilst my windows clients (son &
> mrs) could continue with smb.
>
> Martin
>
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