[PLUG] Samba - user mounting a drive

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

I'm mostly samba illiterate but I have an e-smith server that's 
got some shares and I connect to them with windows PC's.  No problem.

My difficulty arises when I want to mount the drive on a Linux box.
I put an entry like this in /etc/fstab:
 //fileserv/share    /home/eric/share  smbfs  noauto,exec,workgroup=\
   ourgroup,fmask=777,dmask=777,users,username=eric,password=password 0 0

I have to make smbmnt setuid root so I: chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt

Then I can just do this as me (eric):

# mount ~/share

and poof!  This works... For ONE user.  

Unfortunately, user eric logs out of Gnome/KDE/Whatever and leaves.
Another user walks up and uses the computer.  That person is not "eric"
so the fstab entry does not work for them.

What can I do to make this "generic" so that whoever logs in to the
computer gets their shares mounted?  I found that I can get a 
"start up" job run in Gnome so I could script this for each user but
that could be painful :-)  Also, there is no "shutdown" or "logout"
script that I could find so the drive would remain mounted :-(

I have never used automount but I did work at GE where I could log into
any of their sun boxs in the the division, from Florida to New York, and
get my own home directory (albeit slowly in some cases).
Is automount a solution for this type of situation?

Anybody have suggestions?

TIA

Eric

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