Bug#407446: general: automatic mount network share in filesystem.

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jean-Michel wrote:

> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> samba network share might be automagically mouted in file system.
> 
> share partage on computer machine from domain domaine, with user utilisateur shoud be
> available in filesystem throw:
> 
> /network/samba/domaine/machine/utilisateur/partage/SomeFoldersFromRemoteComputer
> 
> In the same way that processes are available with /proc.
> 
> The only technical issue I see is when to provide password, and how to
> store them.

If you are the only user in your machine, why don't you just use
/etc/fstab for that?

Or are you suggesting that the system should "guess" (by way of unknown magic)
every shared folder on every computer for every user in /etc/passwd?

[ Remember again that this is Unix, a multiuser operating system ].