How to automount NAS drive on WiFi
I have Kubuntu 20.04 which I have connected to my (wpa2 encrypted) wifi. I have the password remembered in the system, so whenever I login to KDE the computer connects to my wifi.
I also have NAS on the same wifi and I would like to automout it. But this is only possible when I'm connected to wifi, which I guess happens after I log in to the KDE (because otherwise how it would know the password).
Is there a way how to mount something automatically when I'm connected to wifi?
I tried to put the mounts to /etc/fstab and it aoutomounts if I have ethernet connection. On wifi thery are not mounted unless i do sudo mount -a 'manually'.
I'm also not sure how to unmount correctly during shutdown. Just shutting down computer (via the KDE menu of course) sometimes stucks on the umount. I guess the wifi is already disconnected at that point so it can not correctly unmount and it just timeouts after like a minute, which blocks the shut down process.
Thanks
1 Answer
Usually systemd takes the job of mounting and unmounting. I've done the following on two of my devices to connect to my NAS on demand: Open fstab and enter the mount:
The scheme is [target] [mountpoint] [options]
//server/path /path/to/local/mount cifs username=XXX,password=YYY,noauto,_netdev,users 0 0The mount will take place when you try to connect to your mountpoint, either by script or via files/nautilus. "noauto" is the flag that prevents your system to try to connect immediately.
