On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Markus Feldmann wrote: > Hallo, > > is there a Client Software for Windows that offers a possibility to > take a different Username to mount Samba shares at the Startup of Windows, > like the Netware Client for WIndows. >
THe whole point of samba is to provide file-sharing, print-serving and authentiction services to Windows clients without additional software. > For Example: > In our Manufacture all Clients have got one User, this is "Administrator". Unless you have chnaged the rights of "Administrator", this is bad practice, and a security risk. > But to mount a share from our Linux Server it should be a different User. > Therefor the Worker shall only write a other Username in the Login-Window at > Startup although the Workstation shall take the local Profil from the > Administrator. > This is like the Netware Client for Windows if you know this. > > The Reason for this is that every Worker may work on any Workstation he want > to > and we do not want to create 20 Profils on every Windows Client. Why not use roaming profiles instead, with domain user accounts? Regards, Buchan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
