Ok, it’s not a full location detection as such.. I use my laptop (Ubuntu 9.04) both at home and work, as well as other places. The problem that I had was related to how SAMBA was configured. At home I have one workgroup name and at work I want the machine to appear in the company domain. But also, while out and about in the big bad world I don’t want SAMBA on at all, no need to share anything with anyone.
So, to over come this and correct it at boot time I’ve come up with the simple script below. The only other thing you need to do is prepare a couple of smb.conf files to suit the locations you’ll be in. I have 2 smb.conf files, one for HOME and one for WORK. I run the script from /etc/rc.local so it runs when I should have networking fully up and running.
Here is the script:
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#!/bin/bash |
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HOME=YOUR_HOME_GW_IP |
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WORK=YOUR_WORK_GW_IP |
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GW=`route -n | grep ^0.0.0.0| awk <span style="color: #006080">'{print $2}'</span>` |
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<span style="color: #0000ff">if</span> [ $GW = $WORK ]; then |
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#echo <span style="color: #006080">"You're at work"</span> |
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cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.WORK /etc/samba/smb.conf |
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/etc/init.d/samba restart |
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elif [ $GW = $HOME ]; then |
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#echo <span style="color: #006080">"You're at home"</span> |
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cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.HOME /etc/samba/smb.conf |
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/etc/init.d/samba restart |
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<span style="color: #0000ff">else</span> |
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#echo <span style="color: #006080">"You're somewhere else"</span> |
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/etc/init.d/samba stop |
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fi |
Pretty simple really. Hope others will find it useful.
