Automounting of user directories on Linux

Matthew Keller kellermg at potsdam.edu
Wed Mar 22 20:50:59 GMT 2000


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> >       If all of the home directories on the SMB serve are in the same folder,
> > export that folder (callit "Home" or "Dirs" or something). Then use
> > smbmnt to mount that folder to /home - As long as the /etc/passwd file
> > has their home directory listed as /home/username - It works great. Very
> > fast (TCP over NFS's UDP) and actually has user-level authentication
> > instead of the cheeze authentication NFS uses.
> 
> how do you deal with file permission problems?

	Good question! *sheepish grin* I'll go back to sleep.


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