Lucky.
June 27th, 2009, 05:04 AM
Gah, frustration growing!
Using both Ubuntu 9.04 server and client.
BACKSTORY:
1. Got Samba working on the server, and my Windows client connects to it very well. A certain user on the Windows client has a mapped drive to a public share on the server. Very nice.
2. For my Ubuntu client, I want to have a mapped drive to the public share just like my Windows client does. I use "Connect to Server" in Gnome, and save it as a bookmark. The samba share isn't mounted at login, but clicking the bookmark mounts and works just fine afterwards. That's reasonable enough.
3. I decide that "Samba is nice for Windows, but for my Ubuntu client I want to use NFS. I need to learn it anyway."
4. I get NFS working fine on the server. I'm able to mount the public share manually from my Ubuntu client using the following:
sudo mount 192.168.1.202:/srv/music /mnt/music
(Of course 192.168.1.202 is the address of the server.)
5. Manually mounting is nice, but I want my mapped drive behavior. How to do it? Gnome's "Connect to server" feature doesn't seem to support NFS.
I want to simply automount my single public share, but not have it mapped universally (every user should not have it mapped).
In my searches, I've found two types of tutorials/forum posts:
1. People editing their fstab file. This seems like it will mount the share for everybody...not just certain people. That's no good.
2. People automounting a networked home folder using autofs. This is more on track, but a little too dynamic. I like my home folder where it's at. I simply want to mount a single folder...not have users automounting home folders based on their names. I would really like to see an example of this working with something other than home folders.
Anybody with experience on the subject? This seems like such a trivial simple thing...an automounted share for an individual user.
Using both Ubuntu 9.04 server and client.
BACKSTORY:
1. Got Samba working on the server, and my Windows client connects to it very well. A certain user on the Windows client has a mapped drive to a public share on the server. Very nice.
2. For my Ubuntu client, I want to have a mapped drive to the public share just like my Windows client does. I use "Connect to Server" in Gnome, and save it as a bookmark. The samba share isn't mounted at login, but clicking the bookmark mounts and works just fine afterwards. That's reasonable enough.
3. I decide that "Samba is nice for Windows, but for my Ubuntu client I want to use NFS. I need to learn it anyway."
4. I get NFS working fine on the server. I'm able to mount the public share manually from my Ubuntu client using the following:
sudo mount 192.168.1.202:/srv/music /mnt/music
(Of course 192.168.1.202 is the address of the server.)
5. Manually mounting is nice, but I want my mapped drive behavior. How to do it? Gnome's "Connect to server" feature doesn't seem to support NFS.
I want to simply automount my single public share, but not have it mapped universally (every user should not have it mapped).
In my searches, I've found two types of tutorials/forum posts:
1. People editing their fstab file. This seems like it will mount the share for everybody...not just certain people. That's no good.
2. People automounting a networked home folder using autofs. This is more on track, but a little too dynamic. I like my home folder where it's at. I simply want to mount a single folder...not have users automounting home folders based on their names. I would really like to see an example of this working with something other than home folders.
Anybody with experience on the subject? This seems like such a trivial simple thing...an automounted share for an individual user.