Using GUI methods (read: easy for most users), is there a way to map to a Samba share and have it accessible to all applications? Going through Nautilus I'm able to create a link to the shares, but they're not accessible from many applications. And, obviously, this is going to be something that changes per user (different mappings, different credentials, etc), so I can't use a static mapping on the machines. I could live with /etc/fstab entries if they could be dynamically adjusted based on the user that's logging into the system. How do other people handle this situation? Thanks, Scott
On 8/28/07, Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com> wrote:> Using GUI methods (read: easy for most users), is there a way to map > to a Samba share and have it accessible to all applications? Going > through Nautilus I'm able to create a link to the shares, but they're > not accessible from many applications. And, obviously, this is going > to be something that changes per user (different mappings, different > credentials, etc), so I can't use a static mapping on the machines. I > could live with /etc/fstab entries if they could be dynamically > adjusted based on the user that's logging into the system. > > How do other people handle this situation?I cannot think of an easy solution for this. But use of autofs might help. It dynamically mounts shares and you may be able to set up credential files per user or occasion. See the wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares for howto mount Windows shares using autofs. Akemi