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Automatically mount and unmount network shares with connection to company network
#! /usr/bin/env bash
# Put this in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/
# to mount and unmount smb/cifs shares with the connection to the network
if test "${IP4_DOMAINS}" = "${COMPANY_DOMAIN}"; then
if "${2}" = "up" -o "${2}" = "vpn-up"; then
# mount the common directory as read only to avoid mistakes
mount /mnt/sharedserver
mount /mnt/home
fi
elif test "${2}" = "down" -o "${2}" = "vpn-down"; then
umount -l -a -t cifs # lazily unmount all cifs filesystems
fi
# This is the /etc/fstab file
# ...
# lots other entries
# ...
//SHAREADDRESS/common/directory/path /mnt/sharedserver cifs noauto,ro,uid=1000,gid=100,credentials=/home/username/.sharedserver.creds 0 0
//SHAREADDRESS/users/my-directory /mnt/home cifs noauto,credentials=/home/username/.sharedserver.creds 0 0
domain=DOMAIN
username=USERNAME
password=PASSWORD
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The even better way is to add the mount points to /etc/fstab and then you can just mount the mount point without specifying anything further. And it makes it easier to remount (for example to add write permissions) later on.

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