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Hi there,

I'm tryin to do some special stuff using autofs/automount.

I access a share via samba on my fileserver.
I want an automounter on my server, mounting partition as needeed.
BUT, I want to execute a script before mounting..

Is that possible ??
and... How ??

Thanks for help..

marc

I'm not sure what you are wanting to do. You can make a script to mount shares with.

Code:

mount -t smbfs //machinename/share /mounting/point

If you are using KDE

Code:

kdesu mount -t smbfs //machinename/share /mounting/point

and you will be prompted for root psswrd.

Then there is
LinNeighborhood
smb4k
Konqueror will mount shares with fish://machine/share
There is also the Lisa demon, but I've never had much luck with it.
And you can make an entry in your /etc/fstab to mount a share.

You say auto mount shares. Do you mean as soon as the share turns on you want the linux box to mount it?