Re: Dynamically mount shares
* Koen Vermeer <k.a.vermeer@tudelft.nl> [061211 05:00]:
> Sure, I could use sshfs instead of cifs. But that still leaves the
> question of how to do the dynamic mounting. I do not want to type in
> some mount command before I can access the share. Rather, it should just
> be there, whenever I need it and can access it. So that leads me to
> autofs again, but then there's not a real difference between sshfs and
> cifs, right? Or is there some easier way to accomplish this with sshfs?
>
> Koen
>
Okay, I was not addressing the auto-mounting part of your question. I
was assuming the auto-mounting and the type of mount were independent,
and I was merely recommending sshfs because it is secure and handles
Linux permissions natively. Perhaps CIFS also handles Linux permissions
natively, but I was under the impression that CIFS was a next-generation
replacement for SMB and that it had the same Windows-to-Linux permission
mapping problems that SMB has (perhaps permission handling is one of the
ways CIFS is better than SMB). Also, sshfs is inherently secure; I
don't know about CIFS.
...Marvin
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