Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 67.88.249.34]
on December 02, 2008 05:46 PM
One problem I have had with mounting items like network smb drives is the requirement of having to enter your password after every restart. This really becomes obvious in a typical office environment with a centralized file server. To fix that problem I moved to pam.mount which is not bad but in no way intuitive and trouble shooting can take a bit of patience. The one problem I have with Ubuntu 8.10 is how the network does not start before you get to gdm. This means trying to connect to a network mount point during logon (pam.mount) will fail unless you allow more time at the logon screen, anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute.
Also, Ubuntu's (gnomes) Virtual File system mounting is a great idea, many programs can't access these virtual mount points correctly so doing it the old fashion way seems to be the best option and even with the VFS you still need to re-enter a password. If you want to use fstab and not something like pam.mount you have to store your passwords (cleartext) in a file and point fstab to that file. That does not seem like a good option especially for a small business environment. This would be a great article of how other people are tackling this problem.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 67.88.249.34] on December 02, 2008 05:46 PMAlso, Ubuntu's (gnomes) Virtual File system mounting is a great idea, many programs can't access these virtual mount points correctly so doing it the old fashion way seems to be the best option and even with the VFS you still need to re-enter a password. If you want to use fstab and not something like pam.mount you have to store your passwords (cleartext) in a file and point fstab to that file. That does not seem like a good option especially for a small business environment. This would be a great article of how other people are tackling this problem.
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