smbmount doesn’t work in 10.10

An annoying change I felt for 10.10 is that it doesn’t allow normal user to mount network drive by default anymore. I’m not sure why this is a sensible change. Maybe it is more secure for somebody but for me, it is just a horrible inconvenience. A simple workaround for me is to add the following line to /etc/fstab

\\\\<your remote windows host ip>\\<your remote windows host folder> /home/<your username>/<your local mount> smbfs username=<your username>,password=<your password>,user,errors=remount-ro 0       1

This will allow you use smbmount as before with

smbmount \\\\<your remote windows host ip>\\<your remote windows host folder> /home/<your username>/<your local mount>

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like that I can umount it after it is mount. Please let me know if you know how. But I’ll just bear with it for now.

Some update: my 10.10 keeps complaining my nvidia driver (my gdm stops starting itself every time I reboot) and so I have to reinstall the video driver every time I restart (thank god(s) that this is linux, I only reboot like once a month).  However, the mount drives seem to be broken when I do that. Maybe it is because one of my network adapter is a usb plugin. Luckily, if I hibernate my computer, it doesn’t go hibernate but seems to fix the problem. Don’t know why but it just happens.

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