[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In linux, is there a way to have a (non-root) user's profile mount a volume at logon and unmount it when the user logs out?
You can either use sudo or something like that (to provide a bit more granularity), or put it in /etc/fstab with the "user" option. The first should allow a bit mroe control over who can mount what since the last allows any user to mount/unmount (but only assuiming the mountpoint is not busy and they can only mount it at the moutpouint you specify; file modes and owners are still enforced of course).
I have 20 users, each of whom needs access to 1 of 10 shared volumes. There are about 15 other users who do not need to use the shared volumes at all. I could just mount all 10 shared volumes on all 7 of my client irix boxes, but I'm afraid that would bog down the network. (The shared disks are on windowsboxes, accessed via samba.) Is there a lot of overhead associated with mounting a volume using samba?
Yes, but only when they are in use.
Or would it all work out because, although there would always be 70 shared connections, most of the time there would be no actual activity on more than a couple of them?
See above. There's only activity during use for the most part (normal SMB browse broadcasts, which are present anyway, aside).
Drastic Dave
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