Hi everyone,

I think this has to do most with networking, so I just put my 'challenge' here.

I have two linux boxes at home, alternately used by two different users. I'd like to be able to run Firefox and Thunderbird from either machine using only one (shared) profile. However, the profilemanager Firefox provides doesn't see the shares I can connect to using the file browser. Therefore I've created a profiles directory in my home directory on one machine, which I've shared using samba. Right now I'm trying to mount my home directory at login on the other machine. And still haven't succeeded.

Some info:
two linuxboxes: 1) machine1 on fc7, 2) machine2 on fc5
The profiles directory is in my home dir on machine1

I can mount my home dir (machine1) on machine2 without any problems:
mount.cifs //machine1/homedir /home/user1/folder -o credentials=/home/user1/filename.txt
works great.

But how to to this at login? I've tried adding this line to my .bash_profile, but that doesn't seem to work; nothing happens. I haven't been able to find a solution to a similar problem on the internet. Perhaps I should try and find a workaround? I'd like to do this as simple as possible.

gr. Ask

I think that "autofs" supports Samba/CIFS. The autofs service automatically mounts a shared directory when it is requested, so that you don't need to explicitly run mount commands.