Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi all,
I am one step away from a wholesale distribution of older machines back onto our
network as Linux workstations - some as thin clients some as full blown clients.
My one remaining problem is how to allow a user to mount their home directory from
another server back onto the local system - or is there another way they can get
access to their home drive?
The home drives are on a server and shared with Samba, I was hoping to have a script
on the desktop that would run and mount the drive for them after they login. The
users do NOT exist on the workstation they are being authenticated via winbind from
an NT server. A skeleton home directory is created for them on first login, I would
like to map their real home directory to that directory.
1. Mount works for root, but can't be used by an ordinary user.
2. Smbmount doesn't seem to work unles used within mount (-t smbfs) See 1
I don't seem to be able to get my head around this at the moment, been staring at it
too long and can't think of alternatives (can't see the forest for the trees!).
Any help or suggestions appreciated.
If your server is Linux, and your workstations are Linux, why not just
use NFS?
Unfortunately winbind puts a bit of a hole in this because it assigns
different user IDs to the same user on different workstations, but I
think that problem would be easier to solve than the smbmount problem.
Also the NFS client is an order of magnitude faster than smbmount /
smbfs.
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