Hello.

I'm FAIRLY new to linux, I have a bit of experience, but I'm mostly proficient in Windows.

I'm using ubuntu through VMware on a Windows XP based laptop that I take both to work and home.

At work, I have 4 Windows Shares that I want to mount, and at home I have a couple as well.

If I could make some sort of batch file like in Windows, I'd know how to get started on what I'm trying to accomplish, but basically, this is what I'm trying to accomplish.

1- script I can run to mount 2 mapped drives at home.
2- script I can run to umount 2 mapped drives at home.
3- script I can run to mount 4 mapped drives at work.
4- script I can run to umount 4 mapped drives at work.

I need these things to be independent, because if I'm connected with VPN (either way) I'd like to be able to mount all at once.

Lastly, and this I think will become very tricky, I'd like to make a script that I can run that will mount a windows share with an IP that changes all the time. The reason for this is that the version of VMWare I'm running doesn't support "shared files" and I'd like to access the files on the C drive of my host system. I can do this by mounting to it's IP address but it changes, and I can't seem to get my linux distro to recognize it by hostname (I suppose fixing that problem might be easier).

Any help?

heh, I fully expect after all that typing, I get NO replies...

The startup scripts are in /etc/rc2.d
and the /etc/fstab says all about mounting drive to location : all is possible there.

replies will follow my pre-reply.

I do have a couple of mount points in fstab now, but that's not what I'm after. The issue with that is, when I'm not connected to both networks, only the drives it can reach are mapped. I don't want it at bootup, I want to do it on the fly.

Also, since I've done the fstab thing, there seems to be an issue shutting down the OS cleanly, I have to tell VMWare to do a hard shut down after it tries. I'm not sure yet that it is an fstab issue yet, though.

Well, I found a solution.

I learned how to make shell scripts, but the only way to run them was to do a command with "bash [script name]", not something I could click on or stick in the menus.

If I put all my desired drive mappings in fstab, if they aren't all connected when I login, I can run "mount -a" and it will refresh the fstab list and look for those drives again.

"umount -a" removes everything mapped in fstab.

This will work for now, it's not ideal but it's decent.