> Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:02:23 +0200 (CEST) > From: Urban Widmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Rob Keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Auto mounting NT shared Home Directories > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Rob Keeling wrote: > > >> I have set up samba 2.2.3a with winbind to join SuSE linux 7.3 machines >> into our NT 4 domain, but would like to be able to set up Linux thin client machines >> to allow transparent use of either windows or Linux desktops. To accheve this I need >> to be able to access our Home directory shares from both systems, the best way for >> us to go at the moment is to find a way of getting linux to automount the users >home >> directory on logon. All our users have a share on one of three NT servers which >coresponds >> to their username. What I would like to do is find some way of on logon >/home/(whatever) is >> mapped to a smb share of //server/(whatever)$. as we have 1200 user accounts >setting this >> up needs to be rule based! > > > autofs has executable maps where it runs a program when you try to access > something. So you could write a script to determine what to mount. > > pam_mount could also be an option. >
IMHO, pam_mount would be the better solution, as it uses the username/pass given to pam, which, if you are using winbind via pam, means the domain account and password. I have tried to get this working, but the problem is that winbind provides the username as "DOMAIN+username" (depending on winbind seperator), but currently pam_mount can only use a wildcard for the username in the directory to mount. Thus, you have problems when you want to mount a share as the home directory windbind uses (/home/%D/%U), since you would specify: /home/DOMAIN/%U, but that ends you up with: /home/DOMAIN/DOMAIN+username pam_mount needs to either support a wildcard representing the users home directory (~ might be a good one), or it needs to have an option for mounting relative to the users home for shares mounting to a path not prepended by a /. I was working on a patch for this a while back, but my code has some bugs (segfault). This feature would be useful in non-winbind setups also, so it might be worthwhile adding to pam_mount. Of course, if you only have one domain, you could use pam_mount with winbind from samba-3.0alpha with the default domain parameter. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
