I think I should explain my problem a little better...
These linux machines will be setup in central student labs and be available to the
general student population (5000 users). Because of the insecurity involved with
the labs there is no way I can use nfs. I would like to use autofs and smbmount but
have it done automagically for the user. I want to have their samba share mounted
as their home directory where all configuration files will be written.
e.g. .bashrc /Desktop for kde/gnome ect
Another problem I have is with the server myserver. Let us say that \\myserver for
the windows network is 142.66.1.2. In the dns tables there is a server called
myserver.uleth.ca which is aliased to myserver (let us say 142.66.1.3). When I try
to smbmount using //myserver/myfiles I get a connection refused because
myserver.uleth.ca is not the same as \\myserver (I am not responsible for this
naming convention).
Perhaps what you have explained below will work for what I am trying to do but from
my limited experience with linux is does not seem to solve the problem.
What I would like to do is
If user testuser1 logs on to the linux box it will mount their \\myserver\myfiles to
/home/testuser1.
In my situation I have to use the -I option with smbmount because of the naming
problem explained above. I could probably have a new name made up (for example
\\myfiles2) if autofs can't support the -I option.
I don't know if this is possible because the password has to be sent to the server
as plaintext.
I hope I have explained my problem a little better this time. If anyone else has
run into this type of situation and have a different
(secure) solution I would be interested in hearing about it. This is my
situation....
Solaris file server (call it fileserver1) with everyones disk space
Solaris file server which nfs mounts fileserver1 and runs samba and netatalk to
share peoples user space to clients
Macintosh labs running from OS 7.6-8.6
PC labs running win9x/NT/Linux with 4 of the central PC labs dual booting
win98/Linux
I will be using ldapns (www.padl.com or www.rage.net/ldap for more info) which is a
name service switch for authentication off a ldap server (Netscape Directory
Server). When a user logs on it passwd uid,gid,home directory ect to the linux
box. The only local user on the linux box will the the root user. Everyone else
will authenticate off the ldap server.
Mike
---
Michael Mercier
System Support
Student Computer Labs
University of Lethbridge
