Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2

Ryan Baxter — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:07:00 -0700

Nearly a month ago I wrote about my problems connecting to the network shares of my Linksys NAS200 using Nautilus in Ubuntu, Hardy Heron. My fix was simple and it worked. Unfortunately, the solution’s WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) was low. Apparently she didn’t think it was easy enough to execute smbmount from a Terminal window. Whatever :) I have since written a small shell script that is called from Session Startup.

Initially, the script failed to connect to my network shares because my wireless network connection hadn’t finished negotiating before the script was executed. I coded around this by creating a while loop that greps the output of a ping to my router. If successful, the mount_shares function is called. Otherwise. the thread will sleep for 10 seconds and try again.

#!/bin/bash

user="thorbardin/ryan%password"
root_dir="/home/ryan/Network Shares"

mount_shares() {
  public_dir="$root_dir"/"Public on Thorbardin"
  home_dir="$root_dir"/"Home on Thorbardin"

  [ -d "$public_dir" ] || mkdir -p "$public_dir"
  [ -d "$home_dir" ] || mkdir -p "$home_dir"

  smbmount "//192.168.1.105/public disk" "$public_dir" -o user="$user"
  smbmount "//192.168.1.105/ryan" "$home_dir" -o user="$user"
}

while [ 1 ]; do
  if ping -c2 192.168.1.1 2>&1 | grep ttl; then
    mount_shares

    exit 0   
  fi
  sleep 10
done

exit 0

I’m already thinking about rewriting this script so that it scans my network using smbtree and automatically mounts all available network shares. That’ll be Part 3!

"Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2" by Glenn

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:12:44 -0700

So far I like it. It was quite easy to get the device up and running. I'm slowly but surely copying my audio and video files to it. I also enabled the media server so I can access the files from my PS3.

"Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2" by Ryan Baxter

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:29:47 -0700

Excellent! How do you like the NAS200 so far?

"Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2" by Glenn

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:27:14 -0700

Thanks for posting this (and part 1). I just bought a NAS200, and this information has been very beneficial.

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Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2

"Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2" by Glenn

"Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2" by Ryan Baxter

"Samba Network Shares with Nautilus in Hardy Heron Part 2" by Glenn