Re: Mount on VPN-Connection

[Greg Oliver <oliver greg gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:24 -0500, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM, rh <listen singsang at> wrote:
>> > I want to mount some samba shares every time a special VPN-connection is
>> > established. How can I do this?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your hints.
>> > Reinhard
>> >
>>
>> I vote for passing the connection name to the dispatcher, so
>> dispatcher could do all sorts of cool things!
>>
>> Wishlist.  I do not know of a way to do it currently by connection though.
>
> 'man NetworkManager'
>
> You'll get a 'vpn-up' even for your dispatcher script, and you'll get a
> ton of info in the script's environment.  Including the UUID of the
> connection that just got brought up, which you can use to figure out if
> you want to start the samba share or not.

Man,  I should have investigated this earlier.  It makes my 'lookup
the IP entries in another text file' script obsolete!  :)