On Aug 23 2007 19:59, G T Smith wrote:

In fact...

>> 
>> - succes.
>> 
>> - this is how-to let a wintendo mashine deliver home-dirs to a linux box.
>> 
>> [...]
>> On the linux box, as root, create a dir like this: mkdir /home

If /home is a separate mount, the directory will already exist.

>> Now, as root, reread /etc/fstab, do it with mount -a

There is no such thing as rereading fstab. Hence mount -a is superfluous.
Just mount /home;

>> Go into YaST. Create a new user, name him whatever, and see that his 
>> home-dir 
>> indeed now resides on the win-box.
>> 
>> - thanks to the list again for directing me !
>> 
>A number of thoughts
>
>a) user is root, password secret (locally hmm..). The first problem is
>NT/AD ids have a discrete ID scheme from that used in Linux, if root is
>translating into admin account you have an ordinary user logged as an
>admin to the windows server (and AD/NT)... somehow I do not think that
>is your intent :-) This can persist into other areas (like other users
>home directories)...
>
>b) The ideal would be for someone to log in the their home directory
>with the appropriate user credentials, however these credentials should
>only become available after the user has authenticated to the linux
>machine. /etc/fstab gives global mounts, for user specific mounts you
>probably need something different.

..like pam_mount for example.

>
>I would suggest you have a look at..
>
>http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/linux-cifs-client-guide.pdf
>

        Jan
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