how to automatically run a script as root to mount a network share

Question

I'm rather new to *nix and have played a little with Ubuntu, Mint and now Elementary OS.

I'm doing a mistake but I don't understand where.

I'm mounting a network share via

sudo mount -t cifs //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/networkshare /mnt/local -o user=user,password=pass,uid=xxx,gid=xxx

the script is executable, if I run the script in terminal all is ok, it asks the password for root and mount the share

but I would like it to be mounted automatically

I tried to put the command into /etc/rc.local so the #!/bin/bash above it and the exit 0 below it are already there

I tried to put the command into Applications -> Startup Commands

I also tried to create a file.desktop into /.local/share/applications (so, at least, it is easy to run) as Exec I tried both

Exec=/path/filename.sh

and

Exec=sh /path/filename.sh

but none is working, none of the methods is asking me the root password

Surely I'm doing something wrong, I did a google search but I've not been able to find some guide. Can you drive me the right way ?

TIA

Answer 1

You want to run a script that does not need user interaction so there is absolutely no problem that it does not ask for the root password.

Actually the file /etc/rc.local is run with root user privileges, so it should work (without asking a password). However, the preferred method to mount filesystems automatically is to append them into the file /etc/fstab. There should be a line like this:

//xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/networkshare /mnt/local cifs user=user,password=pass,uid=xxx,gid=xxx 0 0