Auto mounting network drive after wireless conn is established

**sauce345** · November 19th, 2008

PowerEngine, you do not need to be connected with ethernet first. If the network is unavaible when the computer reads the fstab it just does not mount them. Then when on the network type:

sudo mount -a

And it will either throw an error because something is not specified right or it will mount the network drives properly. I use it with my wireless all the time.

Anyway not sure if this helps because of your Truecrypt and unfortunely i don't know a lot about truecrypt.

**PowerEngine** · November 19th, 2008

That is correct. sorry I didn't notice that you mentioned the mount -a.
Thanks a million for your help.
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Is there a hint regarding the path of the mounted folders using the graphical interface (ie Places -> connect to server .. ) ?

Cheers..

**ohzopants** · November 19th, 2008

I don't think that folders you access that way are actually mounted.
If you open the shared drive in Nautilus and press Ctrl+L you should see the path of the folder. I'm pretty sure it will start with smb:// which means it's accessing it via samba and not as a local directory.

**PowerEngine** · November 19th, 2008

aha .. yes it does start with smb://
so Samba doesn't mount network folders in local disk to access them ?

**mtn** · August 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by sauce345

PowerEngine, you do not need to be connected with ethernet first. If the network is unavaible when the computer reads the fstab it just does not mount them. Then when on the network type:

sudo mount -a

And it will either throw an error because something is not specified right or it will mount the network drives properly. I use it with my wireless all the time.

Anyway not sure if this helps because of your Truecrypt and unfortunely i don't know a lot about truecrypt.

Hi, I seem to be having the same problem. I'm running Ubuntu Janty Remix on an Eee PC 701. I have everything set up to the point that after start, up, if I execute

Code:

sudo mount -a

in a terminal, then my network folder is mounted to the local folder, as set up in fstab

Code:

//192.168.1.20/Peter-on-Network /home/peter/Peter-on-Network	smbfs	auto,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,umask=000,user	0 0

I'm setting this up for my technically illiterate father, so, I need the network folder to mount at start up - without the need to open a terminal and run a command.

I am assuming the folder is not being mounted automatically because the wireless network connection is not established before fstab is executed?! Any suggestions would be much appreciated...

**DuckSedo** · September 9th, 2009

Hi all,

I am having an identical situation to PowerEngine.
Two questions on using /etc/fstab and mount -a
1) How does it take the SSID of the network in account? a.k.a. How do i prevent mounting things on the wrong network? (Can the SSID be used in the path for the credentials?)
2) I which script should i place the mount -a in order for the mounts to be done without any special user action?

**DuckSedo** · September 9th, 2009

An ugly solution:
In the login script start a second script in the background;

second.sh&

second .sh contains:

sleep 1
mount -a

increase the sleep time if needed.

**feizex** · September 25th, 2009

Hi,

I am also looking for a solution to mounting network shares after wireless is connected.

As noted earlier, entering network shares into /etc/fstab doesn't work because wireless is not connected when mount all happens.

I happen to be running WICD to do connection because it avoids needing to put in default keychain password every time you boot (I have autologin set). Try it, it is pretty easy to setup. http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php

NOTE: if using WICD and you only have wireless NIC, you should delete wired (eth0?) connection profile in WICD or it will sit there trying to get DHCP on non-existant NIC for 3 minutes or so. And it will wait till that times out before connecting to wireless.

Now back to my point... On googling, I found that WICD has a function to run script after connect. This may be what you need. Do your mount script and have WICD run it after wireless is connected!

Regards,
Feizex.

PS. please excuse any inaccuracies, I still have my linux training wheels on. =)

**DeusEx** · October 29th, 2009

take a look here.\
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...bfs+auto+mount

**jesperborgstrup** · October 12th, 2011

Hi all!

Since I wanted to accomplish the same thing, but couldn't find any useful information about it, I wrote a small article about how I got it to work on my Ubuntu 11.04:

Ubuntu: Automatic mounting of Samba share when connected to a wireless network

Hope it will help somebody