libertus

Now my Ubuntu workstation, part-way upgraded to the 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” release, works almost as elegantly as my Windows machines have worked forever. My network music store now auto-mounts into my home directory when I login. Finally. I’ve been beating away at this, on and off, for bloody years. I’m just not a great sysadmin, I guess!

Method follows.

1. sudo apt-get install libpam-mount
2. read the docs under /usr/share/doc/libpam-mount/
3. sudoedit /etc/pam.d/gdm to append @include common-pammount
4. sudoedit /etc/security/pam_mount.conf to enable the luserconf setting and append ro to the options_allow setting
5. create file .pam_mount.conf in home directory containing:
   

   volume username smbfs servername Music ~/Music nosuid,nodev,ro - -

6. sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

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