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[Jonathan E. Brickman]

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>> Do you have a simple way to have SMB NAS or XP Home shares mount 
>> automatically at login? J.E.B.
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> Close..  Here's what I would do for "ease of use" sake..  Use either 
> Gnome or KDE as the default desktop and drop a couple icons on the 
> desktop that point to the cifs/smb shares.  They'll auth and mount up 
> when you open them.
Now, now, Linc, that's not really close and you know it :-)  That gives 
me a degree of access, but then I have to tapdance through Gnome or KDE 
internals to use those icons like the fake mounts they are.  I don't 
want fake mounts; I want real mounts.  Anything else is an automatic 
bug-spawner not at all transportable across desktop environments. 

Mount-fakery is frankly one of the things I find most foolish about both 
Gnome and KDE.  It is very deceptive to a newby.  They think they're 
getting a working mount, and on some distros it works for a few apps -- 
but breaks on most, and then they try command-line and the house of 
flashpaper-cards flashes to ash.  Blaugh.

I'll probably try the FUSE SMB filesystems again.  I saw something 
recent which said one of them was working.

J.E.B.