All my computers are running some form of OpenSuSE 11. I have a SLES11 file server that stores Pictures, Movies, and Music. I would like my kids to be able to mount the share when its missing. Dont want the mount to be automatic during boot incase of not being connected to the network such as when using laptops at friends home.
fstab entry:
//server/share /media/network smb noauto 0 0
My ideal process would be to have the kids press Alt+F2, which would have a command window show up. Then they could type mount /media/network and be done.
After I get this setup, I still need to figure out why only root on the client machines can copy to the File Shares.
John
Johnfm3 wrote:
> All my computers are running some form of OpenSuSE 11. I have a SLES11
> file server that stores Pictures, Movies, and Music. I would like my
> kids to be able to mount the share when its missing. Dont want the
> mount to be automatic during boot incase of not being connected to the
> network such as when using laptops at friends home.
>
> fstab entry:
> //server/share /media/network smb noauto 0 0
cifs
> My ideal process would be to have the kids press Alt+F2, which would
> have a command window show up. Then they could type mount
> /media/network and be done.
For XFCE4 there is xfce-mount, which let users mount devices from a panel.
Gnome has something comparable as I’m sure other desktop managers have too.
> After I get this setup, I still need to figure out why only root on the
> client machines can copy to the File Shares.
You need to have the ‘-o uid=<UID>,gid=<GID>’ in your fstab cifs lines
so that mount.cifs knows which user owns the mountpoint.
Theo
I gave up on smb and configured NFS as each child has there own user name (and there is 5 of them). And I dont want to have multiple entries in my fstab for each child.
My family has grown to like KDE, so I have no intention of changing.
NFS worked great. And by only adding users,noauto in the 4th section, I got the exact affect I was looking for. Now I have started a new thread about NFS Security and trying to hide files to users who are not apart of the proper group.
Thanks,
John
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