How to specify automount options without /etc/fstab

[dg1727]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:15:39 -0400 Kevin Chadwick 
<ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>Not a finished solution but this may help.
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>http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2012-June/030779.html
>

Thanks for this suggestion.  I have also been pointed to the 
following by a user on the xubuntu-users mailing list:  

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=988150

I am working on adapting one or the other of these solutions to my 
user's case, as I get time.  

-dg1727