Hi all,

I am wondering if it is possible to have my system automatically mount a network share as CIFS when connected to my personal network at home, but to not attempt to mount when I am connected to any other network. Is there an fstab option for this?

I realize this might be a tall order, but what other types of solutions do experienced users do to automate this process of mounting from NAS devices when home and away? Is it OK to have to have the CIFS mount in fstab even though it will give an error every time the network share is not available?

This is my first post on linuxquestions.org and hope I didn't miss an easy solution to this somewhere in my searching. Everyone seems to just add the mount to their fstab without discussion of the consequences of it not being available sometimes.

Thanks!

well, first of all i am not 100% but pretty sure that /etc/fstab is only run on boot but i honestly can't fully remember since it has been so long since i messed around with that. so if that is true and it doesnt, then you only need to run mount -a if it is designated correctly in /etc/fstab. mount -a will run the stuff in /etc/fstab.

if that is not correct then there are two possible options for you. you can either write a custom script that will auto mount for you. a reference would be here...

ubuntu auto mount

the os wouldnt matter which type, the process would be the same. otherwise i believe there is a program out there called autofs. check into one of those and go from there.

CIFS doesn't know about the _netdev option and will throw a warning about it, but you should leave it in.
This option ensures that the drives won't get mounted if you have no network or if you are on the wrong network.

i have this in my /etc/rc.local:its not elegant but it gets the job done.