Re: Really stupid question...

[Welly Hartanto]

mslinuz wrote: Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their home share on the Samba server to be automatically mounted, and then unmounted when they log off. I'm using Gnome/GDM with Debian Sarge. I'm sure there is an easy way to do this that I haven't found... Thanks for any assistance in this. I'm sorry if I misunderstand, but after reading your mail, I have 2 assumtions: 1. Users use debian with gnome/gdm in the different machine and need to mount the share everytime they log in. Create a directory for mounting user share. Then create a file with 0700 for everyuser place in a save place : #!/bin/bash smbmount //serveraddress/sharedfolder /pathtomountingpoint -o username=whatever,password=pwd; exit 0; add these line to $HOME/user/.bashrc : if [ -f PATHTOSCRIPTFILE ]; then . PATHTOSCRIPTFILE; fi that's all. I have about 500+ users (students). I do not like to store user passwords as clear text in user's home directory. Is there way to go around this. That's why 0700 file mask is recommended or 0500. And have the script name not to "show up". Name it "fancybash.sh" or something inrelated ;-) You can find yourself the most secure way to place the script, but for this to work it needs to be stored in a place where your user have access into it. But if the shared samba folder use the same authentication ( user/pwd ) for every user, you could have root do the mount thing. Sorry for wrong info, I mean if the samba shared folder is the same folder that needed by every user then you can create a directory which accessible for all users and mounting it via /etc/fstab. Create a group where all of your users must be added into. And have the share folder mapped with the group pemission. For example : //serverpath/thesharedfolder  /mnt/samba  smbfs  user,password=smbpassword,uid=1000 ,gid=1000,username=smbusername,auto  0  0 I believe there are more advanced and easier ways to do it. But those are the things I usually do.