Hi, I managed to configure my linux computer to mount an smb-share when I login, but the shares are not mounted when I log in via ftp. the reason I want to get this working is because the server where the smb-share is located doesn't allow ftp-logins (or ftp-server is not installed, I don't exactly know because it's not my own server) any ideas? Johan

lets see if i get this right you want to use a service (ftp) that isnt even installed????? dosnt work gota have ftp installed and runinng on the box your trying to acces then its as simple as editing the .profile under the user to mount the smb drive... not the period pefore the name profile denotes hidden system file.. ls shows files ls -lisa shows all fils including hidden files

No, that's not what I want. I have access to an smb-share on a server, lets call it 'bsggtgv'. that server doesn't allow logins via ftp or ssh. I have my own server, p311, to which I have full access. I can configure an account on p311 in such a way that if I log in to this account, the smb-share on bsggtgv is mounted on p311. in this way I can access the share via my server. the thing that I can't get to work is to mount the share on p311 while logging in via ftp instead of ssh (or directly on the server). The reason I want to to do this is that I want ftp-access to the files on the bsggtgv-server (is a webserverver for a domain of which I am webmaster, but don't have access to the domain-properties). I know, it's a very stupid situation, but there's nothing much I can do about it. is there a way I can automatically mount the share on p311 when I log in to that account on p311 via ftp? for now, I can use a workaround by first logging in via ssh to p311 and then via ftp, and close the ssh-connection after closing the ftp-connection. any ideas? Johan