just realized that somebody else might have come accross this problem here, and might be able to help me<br clear="all">Jacob Mansfield<br>Programmer<br><br>
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Date: 16 December 2010 21:53<br>Subject: network drives & wireless<br>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>
<br><br>I have been trying to configure ubuntu to connect to some cifs shares over a wireless connection, I realise that if I want this to be done automatically they must have entries in fstab but this causes the system to hang as network manages has not started and the computer has no network connections. to solve this problem I have installed wicd which detects my wireless network but will not connect to it.<br>
could anybody sujest how to overcome this problem, I realise that simply mounting the drives after nm has started would work however it would need non root users to be able to mount drives which would be a MAJOR security risk. for this system manually entering commands on startup is not an option as it will be a keyboard- and mouse-less system controlled by a blue-tooth remote.<br>
<br>thanks in advance for all the help<br clear="all"><font color="#888888">Jacob Mansfield<br>Programmer<br><br>
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