I have a feeling I may have lost focus on the issue in some of my previous messages... so here's my dilemma.
I have several Windows (2000 and XP) clients, and several Linux (Red Hat Enterprise 3, 2.4.21 kernel) clients. I've got a couple servers, one is currently Windows 2000 Server, and one is Linux (same as above, with the snapshot Samba running). I want to be able to have users log into the Linux clients, authenticated through the Windows server, and access their home directory from the Linux server. That's the goal in a nutshell... Here's a very brief summary of the problems I've run into with all of the solutions I've tried: 1. I tried having the clients use SMB to mount their home directory, but realized that SMB doesn't support hard or symbolic links, apparently despite the "unix extensions = yes" option being set. It may be that the "unix extensions" option only applies to cifs clients, which leads us to #2. 2. I tried to apply the cifs patch to a couple of my Linux client machines, but for one reason or another, the module never wants to either get compiled, or be inserted into the kernel. The kernel gives me hundreds of errors if I try to compile it, after having downloaded the source right from Red Hat, in RPM format... even when I copy the /boot/config-2.4.21-15EL to the source directory and try to compile. 3. Having lost faith in SMB and CIFS, I moved on to NFS. However, since my authentication is going through the Windows server via winbind, each client is getting different UID's and GID's for the same user. So, I tried idmap_ad, after installing the Services for Unix 3.5 on the Windows server, but can't get the clients to pull the UID and GID we set on the server. It keeps using its own local algorithm and coming up with its own UID/GID. I've tried removing the winbindd_idmap.tdb and winbindd_cache.tdb, and setting the "idmap backend = ad:ldap://servername"; in the smb.conf, but to no avail. 4. We're currently considering dropping the Samba server altogether, since nothing we do seems to work, but even that's causing problems. To get it to work, we have to use NIS for authentication, and access all the home directories via NFS. This all apparently requires much configuration on the Windows server, and is causing me headaches... besides, being an anti-Microsoft guy, I feel like I'm abandoning my brethren in Linuxland. I'm very open to suggestions... I've just about exhausted all the options I can think of... so if anybody has any advice, please let me know. Shannon ____________________________ Shannon Johnson Network Support Specialist / Systems Administrator Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering 224 Reber Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 865-8267 ____________________________ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
