If I haven't made my appreciation clear, let me take this opportunity to 
say THANKS, Craig, for patiently helping me out with my networking 
questions.

Ever the one to continue taking advantage, I have one more question-

I found once I got it all together and place an entry in my /etc/fstab 
file so the network directory would mount on my laptop at startup, that 
it  causes my laptop to hang for quite awhile on reboot. I decided that 
since I will be needing to access this directory only occasionally for 
backup purposes at present, I did not want it to automount at boot, but 
would rather do it manually. But not too manually. I want to manage it 
with a shell script which I can invoke by clicking a desktop icon when 
needed.

Writing the script was no biggie, nor was making it executable or 
creating the desktop icon. The hitch in the giddyup is that the mount 
command must be run as root, and whereas that is no problem if invoking 
the script from a terminal by its pathname, I have no idea how to set it 
up so that I get a prompt for root password when running the script with 
an icon. Putting "su" into the script is no good, it seems, as the su 
command must be run from a terminal, and Linux is fetishistic enough in 
its security measures that it ignores attempts to suid a shell script.

Any ideas? I have googled relentlessly, and while I found a few 
suggestions online, none of them proved viable in this circumstance.

-- 


Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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