BTW you should beable to use either gnome or kde to browse for smbshares but once they are autofs they are treated as local disk so far as your scripts go..
I have never claimed to be a guru, but it is really embarrassing to have to admit that I did not know autofs worked with remote devices! Boy, do I feel stupid!
Yeah, as far as the gui interface, I actually have the icons on the desktop. It was running the script for a cron job that had me stumped. Thanks so much for the link to autofs. It is interesting that I can also use autofs to plug in a portable usb drive for "take home" backup (critical to a business like mine).
I wonder why this little widget is not talked about more. It works great here on my home machine (Mepis) for accessing usb thumb drives.