Onsdag 22 august 2007 22:54 skrev Sloan: > Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > Onsdag 22 august 2007 20:47 skrev Sloan: > >> Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > >>> Hi list, > >>> > >>> - I know (well, think) this can be done. > >>> - I've got a Wintendo file server that needs to supply the home-dirs of > >>> all users of a multiuser SuSE10.2 system. > >>> - let's not discus why...it's just so. Sigh. > >> > >> Yeah but... no more pipes, sockets, symlinks, and other nasty surprises > >> for unix users. I would at least go on record to point out the technical > >> problems to the PHB beforehand. > >> > >>> - the users are already authenticating against a Wintendo AD, works > >>> fine. > >>> > >>> - I simply forgot how to do... > >>> - Do I just (in /etc/fstab) mount or what? > >> > >> IMHO amd or autofs would be the way to implement that sort of thing. > >> > >> Joe > > > > - Thank you for the answer. > > - may I ask; what's "amd" ? > > > > - and in what manner could I use autofs to do this tast with? > > - I thought I would need to haven en entry in /etc/fstab, something > > like...: > > > > mount -t smbfs something-here something-here some-options-here... > > amd is the "auto mounter daemon" which is a mature cross platform (unix) > automatic network disk mounting solution, but in current linux distros > it's been pretty much superseded by autofs, a native linux > implementation of the same general idea. > > If you have autofs installed on your linux workstation, there should be > some files there, such as /etc/auto.master and others, including > auto.home and auto.net which I've found useful. There should also be a > file called auto.smb for mounting remote pc-lan shares. > > Take a look at /etc/auto.smb, as it should provide a good starting point. > > Joe
Thanks for the info, I'm on to it with man pages, info, google and all. I'll try to remember to let the list know of my progres. Best regards, - V. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
