On 17 Apr 2002, David Brodbeck wrote: > I checked into AFS, but unless I'm mistaken you have to buy some kind of > server license. That makes testing it out as a solution kind of > difficult.
http://www.openafs.org/ http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/ I only know they exist, not how well they work. But from what I understand they are both free and include a server. > I'd just use smbfs, but the problem then becomes how to transparently > mount all the needed shares *as the user that's currently logged in.* > Making user-mountable fstab entries is easy enough, but that still > leaves the problem of having to prompt the user multiple times for their > password... pam_mount is supposed to be able to handle this. http://pam-mount.conectevil.com/ mount could be taught to use ~ in /etc/fstab and then you could do: //server/share ~/smb smbfs noauto,user,credentials=~/.smbpass,... /Urban -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
