John, Samba should work perfectly with Windows NT. You just need to make sure you are using it properly. I recommend the O'Reilly book "Using Samba".
But beyond configuring Samba itself, you need to make sure your users have access to Samba. It sounds like your users do not have smbmount in their $PATH. Now you have to consider where you're mounting it. The problem with jmc using a directory mounted by root is that you mounted it somewhere that jmc has access to. Once jmc can mount his own directory in his own home directory, your problem is solved. I also assume that you are not trying to mount the NT share as the user's home directory. Rather, I saw it as something like this: jmc logs in and is placed in /home/jmc/. jmc mounts //ntserver/private/jmc on /home/jmc/ntprivate manually or via .bash_profile jmc umounts /home/jmc/ntprivate manually or via .bash_logout Now this mount is protected from others on the LTSP server via the normal permissions (0700) on jmc's home directory. As for jmc being able to browse the other users' private directories, this should be handled by Samba and the NT server's permissions. Once you're mounting the share as jmc and not as root, this should "just work." Samba tries in all cases to pass through the intended permissions of the Windows host. Using LinNeighborhood, are you trying to just mount //ntserver/private? You should instead try mounting //ntserver/private/jmc. If the shares aren't browseable, then you could do it via a shell script (behind a GUI button for your users) as Joseph suggests or, if you like the GUI browseability of LinNeighborhood, you could make them browseable. jmc will still need to provide the correct username and password to the NT server to mount any of those shares, so this only slightly less secure by listing all the shares. Jason -- -================================-==================================- Jason Bechtel, Software Engineer | (419) 861-3331 Unique Systems, Inc. | Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6920 Spring Valley Drive, #106 | http://www.uniqsys.com Holland, OH 43528 | UNIX/Linux Solutions for Business -================================-==================================- "Think-Linux" The Solutions Show October 30-31, 2002, Toledo OH www.think-linux.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
