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Samba shares are not accessible by other users until a local user mounts them  
Written by Yfrwlf the 1 Feb 12 at 14:23. Related project: Nautilus. New
The problem is when someone sets up a CIFS share on a non-root drive. If a user has a single hard drive with Ubuntu, this isn't a problem, and shares are accessible whenever the computer is on. When the user tries to create a share on another hard drive however, it won't be accessible by other users on the network unless the user has logged in locally and clicked on the drive with the share so that gvfs mounts the drive. This can be really annoying for sharing out files, and for situations in which someone chose to use Ubuntu Desktop for a file server (to get the GUI by default) instead of Ubuntu Server.
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Solution #1: Automounting of all local drives, or at least ones with shares
Written by Yfrwlf the 1 Feb 12 at 14:23.
I think the best solution would be to have Ubuntu automount all local drives like Windows does, but at the very least it should mount those with network shares on them which are *supposed* to be accessible.

This could either be done by Gnome/gvfs or by creating a fstab entry.

(There should also be an easy way for GUI users to have network shares automatically mount, too, similar to Windows' "map network drive", and perhaps the same solution, mechanism, or user window/prompt could be used for dealing with both of these problems.)

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Option to automount drives on bootup  
Written by dmritard96 the 22 Aug 09 at 03:40. Global category: Usability. New
Right now I have to deal with annoying settings in fstab to automount my second harddrive. Or I have to install some program to manage it.
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Solution #1: Right Click option
Written by dmritard96 the 22 Aug 09 at 03:40.
I would like to right click on my second harddrive and have an option to mount on boot. I would also like the option to appear in the properties dialogue.
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Solution #2: Tab for Mounting Issues in 'Properties'
Written by Akerbos the 23 Aug 09 at 15:16.
Should be clear; no need to clutter the context menue.
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Solution #3: Hole new Configuration App for Booting and Mounting Issues
Written by Akerbos the 23 Aug 09 at 15:31.
This is a domain where, sadly, only low-level access is possible. It has to be made usable to more users.
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Solution #4: Automount all drives by default
Written by tholme the 30 Aug 09 at 20:46.
Just automount all drives that can be mounted automatically.
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Solution #5: Remember Mount Status
Written by Avantarius the 10 Sep 09 at 15:23.
Save a list of all mounted drives at shutdown. When turned on again the saved mounts are restored automatically so no configuration app or similar is needed. If you don't want a mounted drive to reappear after reboot, just unmount it before computer shutdown!
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Solution #6: make mounting of ressources via wlan more bullet proof
Written by spocky the 11 Sep 09 at 06:07.
at the moment auto mounting of ressources over wlan is a pain...
sometime the ressources (e.g. NAS over WLAN) are recognised and mounted automatically
sometimes a mount -a is necessary

similarity is given to the shutdown "experience" where sometime ubuntu is waiting for the ressource while it might have been shutdown already
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Solution #7: automount & mount on systemstart
Written by hakaishi the 17 Oct 09 at 08:58.
I think to solve this problem there could be made a second option in the gconf-editor. Something like media_mount_on_systemstart.
And then media_automount should be used only for the automount while media_mount_on_systemstart handles whether the options auto/noauto if fstab are ignored or not.
Another way to solve this would be to let media_automount handle the automount only and let fstab handle the rest.
Right now it's description is as following:
"If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically mount media such as user-visible hard disks and removable media on start-up and media insertion."
I think it should be reduced to:
"If set to true, then Nautilus will automatically mount media such as user-visible hard disks and removable media on insertion."

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Automounting of pre-existing partitions after a new installation  
Written by sbjaved the 17 May 09 at 13:19. Related project: Live CD installer. New
After OS installed, only / is auto-mounded during boot.Other pre-existing partitions are not auto-mounted.
File manager is able to auto-mount partitions when needed but actually this leads to a nasty issue.
Applications, including Gnome itself are failing to open files from such volumes after startup.
Actually, if you've used files from non-automounted partitions, many of programs getting "file not found" or similar errors.
Furthermore, Gnome's panel for example failed to load background panel picture located on another partition.
All this is pretty annoying and what worse there is no evident option to enable mounting filesystems automatically on startup like in KDE.The only feature I see is volume properties dialog in file manager, which however requires manual entering of mount point, path and specify features manually.No easy locations pickers with reasonable default values, no way to choose common mounting options manually, nothing.This is a way too complicated and uncomfortable.Average user will fail to set-up auto-mounting at all and others will find this way ressembles editing /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab manually a way too much.

I wonder why there is no good System -> Administration applet to set these things up.There is pretty useless "Removable drives and media" applet which can do nothing useful in this case for us.
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Solution #1: Give the user a choice to choose auto mounting partitions during installation
Written by sbjaved the 17 May 09 at 13:19.
Ideally it should look like following:
1) User's partitions are auto-mounted after install.Preferrable that setup should guide initial settings in manner like:
"Setup has found the following "disks" (partitions) on your system, we're going mount partition X to place Y, partition A to place B, ... click here to change these settings manually" (so "stupid" users just rely on defaults and "not-so-stupid" have chance to arrange things here).
2) There should be easy and comfortable system applet to configure mounthig AFTER install, something like similar applet in KDE.
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Solution #2: Give the user a choice to modify auto mounting partitions AFTER installation
Written by VladimirCZ the 7 Jun 09 at 07:23.
I'm confident the better way is to let the user make (and later revert) this choice after a few manual mountings for the first time and his / her making up what he needs to be mounted at start and what is better to keep unmounted.
This solution is not in contrary, but it is complementary to the first one - so both can be implemented.
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Solution #3: Make checkbox that automatically mounts the volume
Written by SoftwareExplorer the 13 Jun 09 at 07:32.
There could be a check box right next to the eject icon in nautilus' side pane. If it is checked, the volume is mounted automatically. If it is checked and the user clicks the unmount button, it unchecks the check box.


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Solution #4: Add "Mount Automatically at Start-up" to the context menu
Written by Darwin Survivor the 15 Jun 09 at 18:36.
As chauncellor mentioned below, adding the option to the context menu would be much more intuitive and easier for new users to understand. If you simply put a checkbox beside it, 99% of users are going to say "what does that do?"
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Solution #5: "More operations"
Written by nloewen the 16 Jun 09 at 23:11.
Add a more operations option to the context menu. This can open a window or expand the context menu to show additional less used/more advanced options. This is similar to solution 3 from "Adding an Application Launcher to Startup is too difficult!"
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Solution #6: If user specifically mounts an internal partition, mount it automatically
Written by SoftwareExplorer the 16 Jul 09 at 21:51.
How about this: If a user manually mounts a volume, the volume is automatically mounted the next time the computer starts. If a user specifically unmounts the volume, it no longer automatically mounts. This would be good for people who are new to Ubuntu, because it is simple and is probably what they expect if they have never used Linux. However, external removable media like flash drives, cameras and mp3 players should still be mounted automatically when plugged in. Second, there should be a way to turn this behavior off in nautilus and revert to the old behavior.
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Solution #7: Add mount-on-startup to the gnome-disk-utility
Written by evanplaice the 26 Jul 10 at 12:13.
Add a checkbox to the menu for non-removable partitions in the gnome-disk-utility to auto mount the drive on startup.

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automount option for gvfs volumes  
Written by cdenley the 9 Oct 08 at 21:19. Related project: Gnome. New
I think when you are mounting network volumes with gvfs, there should be an option for automounting the volume on login. I have a few shares which I use all the time, but it takes a few seconds to connect when I need it. My workaround is to have this command run at login.

grep smb:// ~/.gtk-bookmarks|cut -d ' ' -f 1|xargs gvfs-mount

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5936208#post5936208
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #14253
Written by cdenley the 9 Oct 08 at 21:19.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #14253 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Solution #2: Provide option in Nautilus to automount GVFS shares
Written by Dareus the 6 May 11 at 07:26.
After mounting a GVFS share in Nautilus a dialog or a context menu should be provided to automount shares on login.

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Let Rhythmbox try to mount device when there are missing files  
Written by cumulus007 the 4 Aug 08 at 15:47. Global category: Hardware support. New
I'm using Rhythmbox for managing and organizing my music collection. I store my music on a second hard disk. Since Ubuntu doesn't mount devices automatically, Rhythmbox gives thousands of messages that there are missing files when I forgotten to mount my drive, something I always forget. So, it would be nice if there are missing files in the music collection, Rhythmbox will try to mount the device automatically. If the device can't me mounted, it will display the files as missing.

P.S: Rhythmbox isn't in the Category list.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #11830
Written by cumulus007 the 4 Aug 08 at 15:47.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #11830 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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New internal hard drives default automount  
Written by JhansonJr the 25 May 08 at 03:52. Global category: Hardware support. New
When the user installs a new internal hard drive, it should be automatically detected and mounted. Simply put.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #9063
Written by JhansonJr the 25 May 08 at 03:52.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #9063 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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