Hello everyone, I was wondering how you all mount network drives in Ubuntu. Let me start by defining what I mean.
1. Mount on (ldap, AD, etc) user login automatically 2. No password re-entry 3. Reconnect if network drops or not available on boot 4. Must have a real mount point that isn't only ~/.gvfs/foo as some applications won't let the user browse here without actually going to the hidden folder I also happen to use smb, but I don't think that matters. I currently use pam_mount but it has a few issues with number 3. Under normal circumstances it will reconnect. However if the network is not available on boot pam_mount fails and gives up. This can happen on a fast solid state hard drive computer where lightdm starts before networking is up. It can also happen if networking in just unavailable for whatever reason on boot (laptop turned on out of office, etc). Is there anything better out there? Autofs? Custom scripts? Lastly is anyone doing similar things to Windows Offline Files? That is a mount point that syncs locally to the computer when offline or not on the LAN. I've done this using a custom unison<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/> script<http://davidmburke.com/2011/08/26/fully-automatic-backupsync-script-with-unison/>to sync a hidden mount point every minute. This method works but is a bit clunky and doesn't have the features Offline Files or say Dropbox has to deal with conflicts. Solutions like Dropbox or Owncloud don't seem to me acceptable because they are not automatic for the end user and thus less acceptable in a corporate environment IMO. They are also not necessarily something you can use with an existing network drive infrastructure. Owncloud's samba connectivity features do not deal with samba level permissions for example. Best, David Burke davidmburke.com
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