Thursday, March 12, 2009

How to auto mount NTFS network folders/drives on Ubuntu (fstab)

Great great guide for something that is relatively complex to do.

GUIDE

For what its worth, I installed NTFS Configuration Tool prior to this (or else you will not be able to see anything when you manually mount the folder). Look for it under Applications --> Add/Remove (make sure to have the drop down menu that is to the left of the search field on 'All Available Applications'.

IMPORTANT

After following the above guide, drop these into your command lines:
cd /etc/rc6.d
ls -la

You should see :
Swpa-ifupdown the nr is probably 15 and
Sumountnfs.sh that nr is probably 31

Type: sudo mv S31umountnfs.sh S14umountnfs.sh

cd /etc/rc0.d
ls -la

You should see :
Swpa-ifupdown the nr is probably 15 and
Sumountnfs.sh that nr is probably 31

Type: sudo mv S31umountnfs.sh S14umountnfs.sh

SOURCE

Why was this important? Well so you won't have to wait 20+ seconds when you shutdown due to the error from having the network manager shutdown before network locations are unmounted.

Yay!

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