I have a cifs fileshare that I use. My organisation requires that it uses Kerberos so it's mounted with sec=krb5. This is fine, but I'd like it to mount after login automatically without having to click on the icon on Nautilus.
I can create a .desktop entry to .config/autostart/ but it seems a bit clunky. I was hoping to be able to do it in the fstab but I cannot fins the right option. It's currently this; $FILEPATH $DFS_MOUNT cifs _netdev,sec=krb5,users,rw 0 0
This is what works for me in Ubuntu 18.04:
I added an fstab entry for the fileshare directory on the file server:
//server.my.domain.name/directory /mount/point cifs noauto,users,_netdev,sec=krb5 Then I created a shell script with the file extension .sh in /etc/profile.d to mount the directory on login, but only for users who belong to the appropriate domain:
if [[ " $(groups) " =~ ' domain [email protected] ' ]]; then mount /mount/point >/dev/null fi The paths above have been anonymized to protect the guilty ;-}
P.S. If your network takes too long to start, you may need something that takes that into account, such as:
for i in {1..30} # give up if server isn't reachable in 30 seconds do sleep 1 # wait a second if [ ping -c1 server.my.domain.name &> /dev/null ]; then continue # loop if server can't be reached elif [[ " $(groups) " =~ ' domain [email protected] ' ]]; then mount /mount/point >/dev/null # mount share once server responds fi done WARNING: This is untested; use at your own risk!
