Hmm actually that is a distinct possibility. The GUI only displays "connected to Blah" well after everything else has booted up. Thanks for pointing out a very obvious point I missed.

In that case it's not an obstacle that can be easily surmounted.

Unless there is a way to run the script after the network is up? On some linux distributions you can number init scripts like S10, S20, S30 etc. That doesn't seem to be the case for the N800.

By the way, do you know how to set permissions so that the mounted folder is browsable in the File Manager by a non-root user?

My /nslu2 was created as a regular user. But once I mount it as root (I need to be root to use mount), the owner and group becomes 501/501. Is it safe to try chown and chgroup to put it back to user/users?