Help me make my dream a reality : Mounting smb shares at logi n.

[Grant Torresan]

Tried using NFS but I'm afraid it won't work because those directories still
need to be SMB-accessible for windows clients. mounting the same directories
with NFS and Samba at the same time causes me some nasty file-permission
problems. (no write access from NFS side, even though RW is enabled).

However, the pam_mount thing seems to be just what the doctor ordered!! Way
cool.

I'm working it into my solution now and it looks like it'll fit like a
glove.

Thanks guys!




-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hines [mailto:c.d.r.hines at reading.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:23 AM
To: Grant Torresan
Subject: Re: Help me make my dream a reality : Mounting smb shares at
login.



If it's a samba server it must be on unix. Can you just use nfs mounting
to mount the drives off the samba server onto linux servers. NFS is more
effecient than samba. If you wanted the files to only be mounted when
needed you can use the automounter.

Chris
 
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Grant Torresan wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Here's what I'm trying to do here:
> 
> When a user logs into Linux server A , the login script (.bashrc or
> equivalent) then mounts the contents of <file://SAMBASERV/HOMES> to the
> user's current home directory : /home/(username) using smbmount (or
> equivalent).
> 
> The problem I am having here is that the username AND password must be
> included in the script to mount that share from the SAMBASERV server.. And
> I'm not sure howI can get that information into the login script
> automatically.
> 
> As is, Linux server A uses LDAP authentication to authenticate all users,
so
> I'm thinking that perhaps i can make the login script grab that user's
> username/password from the ldap database, and then forward that
information
> on to the SAMBASERV when it tries to mount thier [HOMES] directory.
> 
> However, I'm not sure if this is possible/practical.  Any Ideas on how I
> might implement this solution?
> 
> If anyone can help me with this I would be most greatful.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Grant Torresan.
> gtorresan at itemus dot com
> 
>