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Kartik Singhal writes:
> Thanks Ashish for your response.

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Instead of putting up an SMB server, why not use an SFTP server and an NFS
>> server ?
>> 
>> NFS server for anonymous mounts. And SFTP for authenticated mounts.
>> 

> We need to be able to access the server from windows clients too in the
> other lab, hence we decided for samba. We ran into either problems or
> complications while trying to deploy setups like nfs and ldap. And after a
> lot of testing with this setup we have not observed any problems. Our only
> problem seems to be with resetting the machines.

Well, it is not forbidden to share $HOME through multiple protocols.

>> > #!/bin/bash
>> >> echo 'Enter your username: '
>> >> read un
>> >> nautilus smb://192.168.5.82/$un/
>> >>
>> 
>> And instead of having this script, why not initialize the ~guest with a
>> .desktop file which points to location like: sftp://192.168.5.82/


> It is indeed a .desktop file while just runs this script. This is for
> accessing the private shares of a particular user which is not same as the
> 'user' account they use to login to the client.

The reason I suggested is because entering a username/password in a dialog box
looks straightforward to me, and SFTP url will be the same. You can configure
OpenSSH in chroot mode[1] preventing users from exploring the server 
file-system.

And also if '/$un/' share requires authentication, you're entering same
username twice, one at your script and other in the user/password dialog box
which nautilus pops up. SFTP offers secure access and is well integrated with
Nautilus and GNOME VFS.

References:
[1]  http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/590

HTH
- -- 
Ashish SHUKLA

“Well, I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid
about our origins.” (Motoko Kusanagi in movie "Ghost in the Shell")
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