Hi, I have just subscribed to this list but I post straight away since
I am in a bit of a hurry - and I was unable to find a mail archive to
get up to speed on the list. Sorry if I am an annoyance :).
I have to find a medium-sized project (that is, half time work for a
couple of months) to do in University. I want to do something that I
can benefit from personally, and so I thought about an automounter for
Windows shares. (I live in a dorm with lots of Windows machines
sharing things through SMB).
As far as I can tell, autofs does support smbmount, but only on a per
share basis; you need to specify a mount rule for each share on each
server. What I want is dynamic browsing capabilities like Windows
offers.
I think the main problem is that the virtual file system needs two
levels, the first with the servers and the second with shares on each
server.
Is autofs able to do this, perhaps with a few scripts hacked together?
Would it be hard to expand autofs in this direction? Is there some
reason it cannot be done? If it is not currently possible in autofs,
would one be able to do it with amd (I understand that amd is a bit
more powerful, at the cost of being vastly more complex)?
Or, a bit shorter: Can anyone tell me if such a browsing system is
easily achieved, if it is practically impossible, or if it is fact
sufficiently hard to be suited for a student project? I would like to
know, since if this is a dead end, I need to find another project
within the next few weeks.
Thanks in advance,
Anders
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Regards, Anders <URL:http://www.kampsax.dtu.dk/~and/>
