mounting/unmounting NFS volumes based on current network

[passive]

Hi All,

This is something I've wanted to have working for a while, but never bothered to ask here yet.
Is there a simple way of mounting an NFS volume as soon as I connect to a specific network? I would also like to unmount it automatically when I disconnect from that network.

In my case, I have a server at home where I store most of my media, and I would like to mount volumes off it automatically whenever I'm at home. I use a wireless network, so that might complicate things.

Thanks.

[thepustule]

Have you considered using autofs?

The difference is that autofs will only try to mount when you access the volume. You can configure it to autodismount after a specified inactivity period.

[passive]

I recall looking at autofs briefly in the past. I suppose my main concern with it is that I have a few programs that attempt to access the shared volume automatically (Amarok, for example), and I would rather it just be an empty folder, rather than autofs first attempting to mount it. Any idea if autofs can be configured to fail gracefully in this kind of situation.

[Hu]

Autofs can run a script to determine what mounts are available. This is usually used to automatically discover the available exports on the NFS server. You could use it for this purpose as well: