Thank you for your reply Michael, I will look further into the generalization of my current script. When I was writing it I was looking at it only for one specific user, and then once working correctly, hopefully moving it to a more general approach that used the system to determine the actual user logging in. I will also check into running it from .profile as well since the more I can automate the setup of new users the better. I am glad to see that I may have been on the right track with my script.
Thanks again for the ideas Michael Kelly >>>Michael Wray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/18 9:10 am >>> It seems to me the only more elegant solution would be to make a a mount script that runs from .profile instead. (This way it can be copied to their home directory at user setup.) you could write a script to do the mounting that used things like the output of whoami and the contents of $HOME to determine username and HOME directories for the mount points, and share names. combining it with smbpasswd as an authmethod, the server hosting the My Documents directory could then see when someone was logged in and pre auth the mount. Or you could have it done as a login script on the samba server. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Kelly Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Connecting Suse9.2 to Samba shares in a windows network Hi All, Our office is running somes tests by introducing a couple of Linux workstations into the mix to see how they fair. I am however having some issues connecting these workstations to the shares offered by our Samba 3.02 server. I know that this is not really a samba issue, but I thought I might be able to get some help here to rectify my problems. I apologize if this is too far off topic for this list. Here is the setup: It is a basic workgroup network, no domain, with no PDC or anything of that sort. Authentication for the shares is done simply by having a macthing username/password on a win2000Pro workstation. The majority of shares on the server have the SUID and SGID set to a certain user for simplicity and to resolve the Microsoft Office file locking issues. However, each user's My Documents directory is a server share that is accessed automatically by way of the username used on the workstation. I have left out a few details, but they are unimportant. I do not want the users to have to mount any drives themselves on the Linux workstations so I would like them to be mounted automatically when the user logs in, not at boot time, but login time as these Linux workstations will be multiuser so will need to mount different My Documents directories. I have put the share definitions into fstab, but that will not do the My Documents correctly. I have also tried using autofs which works well for the regular shares, but again does not work for My Documents. I have found info on doing something similar with an NFS filesystem but nothing pertaining to smbfs and what I am trying to do with the My Documents share I am currently mounting them via a script that is called from .bashrc. This works, but it just does not seem very elegant and I know that it can be done better in Linux, I am just not sure how. I would like these tests to pass with flying colors to show the higher ups that Linux will work as a workstation, but having to write a custom script for each user to be able to mount the Samba shares will not help my case. As I said before, I need everything to happen at automatically as any people that will be working with these Linux workstations are not computer savy. Thanks for any ideas Michael Kelly -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
