On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:36:05PM -0800, Mike Ely wrote: > I'm working on a client setup for thin-client machines in an AD with > about 2000 users. One of the requirements is that the server (an LTSP > box) not store each and every user's home directory. All of our users > have a Home Folder setting in their AD object, and I'd like to use > samba to mount that as "home." > > What works now: > smbd, nmbd, winbindd. Compiled Samba 3.0 onto a SuSE 9.0 box and have > all the basic stuff configured. KDM lists all of the domain users > "DOMAIN+username" and I can su to any of them from the shell. If I try > to login to a KDE session, it won't work of course, because there's no > home directory. But auth works right - if I give a bogus password, I > get failed login error =] > Also, smbmount and smbclient work right, either with kerberos or via > login prompt. > > What I need to get working: > A switch so that any domain user logging on will automatically have > home mapped to their share on the win2k server (we have 3 fileservers > for the user accounts). > > In an earlier message, Jerry pointed me to pam_mount.so, which I see in > /lib/security, but I don't have any documentation on how to use it, and > so far google hasn't brought any joy either. Can someone help?
This is all quite possible, but we need to do a bit of work to intergrate the components. Currently pam_winbind can't tell pam_mount what server to mount, for example. Also, we have the problem of special files over CIFS - your Win2k server probably will not like attemptes to create symbolic links. At the very least what we need to do is modify pam_winbind to store a token containing the homedir location, for pam_mount to pinch. Andrew Bartlett -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
