I wanted to make my laptop running Ubuntu automatically mount a Samba share whenever it connected to my wireless home network. I quickly discovered the /etc/network/if-up.d and /etc/network/if-down.d folders which contain scripts that are run whenever a network interface is started or stopped.
I devised the following simple scripts to mount and dismount the share when needed:
Mount:
#!/bin/bash if [ "$IFACE" = "<INTERFACE>" ] then if iwconfig|grep -c <SSID> then sleep 10s mount -t smbfs <SHARE> <MOUNT-FOLDER> -o username=<USERNAME>,password=<PASSWORD> fi fi |
Dismount:
#!/bin/bash if [ "$IFACE" = "<INTERFACE>" ] then if cat /etc/mtab|grep -c <MOUNT-FOLDER> then umount -t smbfs <MOUNT-FOLDER> fi fi |
In order for it to work with your local network settings, you have to replace the following values:
<INTERFACE>: Your wireless network interface. Normallyeth0,eth1,eth2or the like. Can be found by running theiwconfigcommand.<SSID>: The SSID of your wireless network.<SHARE>: The Samba share that you want to mount, e.g.\\192.168.1.5\myshare.<MOUNT-FOLDER>: The path to an existing empty folder in which to mount the share.<USERNAME>and<PASSWORD>: The username and password to use when connecting to the share.
Note the 10 second sleep command (sleep 10s) run when we want to mount. This is due to the fact that mount cannot mount a network share immediately after connecting to the network. This bugged me for quite some time, but is easily solved by waiting 10 seconds before trying to mount the share.
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Simple, elegant, and effective. Thank you so much for this, and thank you for posting on Ubuntu Forums!
thanks for share!
Hi. Thanks for the post. This is exactly what I'm looking for. However, I seem to be unable to get things working appropriately.
For what it's worth, I'm using NFS versus Samba, but I don't believe that should be an issue.
Below is what I've cobbled together as a script from your post. It's in the /etc/network/if-up.d folder. Script is titled "mount-wireless-shares" (no extension).
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$IFACE" = "wlan1" ]
then
if iwconfig|grep -c NetworkNameHere
then
sleep 10s
mount -t nfs 192.168.X.XX:/Directory1 /mnt/mnt_Directory1 -o username=username,password=password
mount -t nfs 192.168.X.XX:/Directory2 /mnt/Directory2 -o username=username,password=password
fi
fi
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
As info, I realize that having Uname & PW hardcoded is bad-form. Once I get this to work I'll plug in a credentials file.
Variations of these NFS commands work fine from the terminal by preceding with "sudo" and elimination of the -o user / password components.
Any help is appreciated.
Have you tried replacing the value of '192.168.X.XX:/Directory1 ' with '\\192.168.X.XX\Directory1'?
This is AWESOME, I am setting up my wife's laptop with ubuntu and needed to get shares connected wirelessly automagically. Thank you SOOOO much! Yea YOU!
THX. Just what I'm looking for.
I use it to store images/videos from a RPI to a NAS