How to mount a drive automatically

[VictorWarner]

I would like to mount a network external drive (ie connected by an ethernet cable) (formatted as vfat).

Manually in console I normally type in the following:

sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=victor,umask=0 //192.168.1.33/victor /media/sda5/network/maxtor

At System Settings/Advanced/Disk & Filesystems

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I believe it is possible to configure a drive so that it is loaded automatically, however I am stuck on setting at the following windows:

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I think the Type should be set to vfat and the mount point should be "/media/sda5/network/maxtor" but I am unsure what to type for Device and under Security and Settings.

Help with these would be greatly appreciated.

Victor Warner

[Fredh]

Re: How to mount a drive automatically

As far as I can see you have to put something in "device" (ip adress or similar)

and activate enable at start up as well as writable.

[stealthbanana]

Re: How to mount a drive automatically

Scroll down the list of filetypes, you will see entries for Network File Systems. I assume it will be a samba share rather than NFS, so choose windows file thingy.

As its over the network, the actual filesystem is kind irrelevant.

See here for more details.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534