Oh wow, I just kept thinking renderer somehow opens ports for accepting streams. Let me revisit it then.

I currently have systemd solution but it only manages to mount when needed.

just tried Dolphin (KDE file manager) - same experience. Going to experiment with autofs next

It was through fstab until recently. About 2 weeks back I moved to mount them on demand (systemd, will confirm exact method when I’m in front of computer) however this still doesn’t address unmount part when I switch network.

Not really tied to gnome, it’s just something I’m using. Would KDE work better ?

Thanks will have a look at autofs

Thanks will have a look at autofs

I want to recommend pop OS but it would be wise to switch to it after there is 24.04 (or later release)

In my personal experience pop os has been absolute rock solid especially with flatpaks However latest stable is quite old (they are working on new desktop environment before upgrade).