[Samba] mount home dir after login

Stefanos Karasavvidis sk at isc.tuc.gr
Thu Jun 16 06:13:33 GMT 2005


be aware that you may experience difficulties with kde/gnome if the 
users home directories lies on a windows server (file lockings, colon 
character not allowed in filenames etc.)

Stefanos

Graeme Humphries wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:07 +0200, Jochen Kaechelin wrote:
> 
>>waht is the prefered method to mount a
>>home directory from a MS 2003 Server when loging
>>in with a linux-client.
>>
>>the linux box is authenhticated against 2003 ADS.
> 
> 
> What you're probably looking for is pam_mount, which lets you mount an
> arbitrary directory on user login. Using pam_mount, it should be fairly
> trivial to mount a home directory with the same name as a user using
> smbmount from your Win2K3 server, and have it unmount when they log out.
> 
> Graeme
> 


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