Luckily the process to get it to work is pretty easy.
Unfortunately there are lots of documented processes that aren't very good. You should use a udev rule for this not any of the other funky junk.
You should be able to do most of this by installing the usbmount package (https://github.com/rbrito/usbmount) but it doesn't always work perfectly out of the box so I've been sticking to this solution because it has always worked for me.
The biggest piece is to use this automount rule from Axllent.org
Create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules that contains the following.
KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
# Import FS infos
IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p %N"
# Get a label if present, otherwise specify one
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}!="", ENV{dir_name}="%E{ID_FS_LABEL}"
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="", ENV{dir_name}="usbhd-%k"
# Global mount options
ACTION=="add", ENV{mount_options}="relatime"
# Filesystem-specific mount options
ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="vfat|ntfs", ENV{mount_options}="$env{mount_options},utf8,gid=100,umask=002"
# Mount the device
ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/%E{dir_name}", RUN+="/bin/mount -o $env{mount_options} /dev/%k /media/%E{dir_name}"
# Clean up after removal
ACTION=="remove", ENV{dir_name}!="", RUN+="/bin/umount -l /media/%E{dir_name}", RUN+="/bin/rmdir /media/%E{dir_name}"
# Exit
LABEL="media_by_label_auto_mount_end" Edit the udev config: sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service
Comment out the last 7 lines and everything works normally. Comment below if you actually know what these do. Otherwise I'm not terribly worried.
#KillMode=mixed
#WatchdogSec=3min
#TasksMax=infinity
#MountFlags=slave
#MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes
#RestrictRealtime=yes
#RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_UNIX AF_NETLINK AF_INET AF_INET6
Restart udev with the command: sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
Restart the box with the command command: sudo reboot
