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

[Welsh, Armand]

Don't take this the wrong way, but is the user of /home/username the owner
of the the file??
ls -l /home/username/.pam_mount.conf

you should see owner as being username.  if not, from root, chown username
/home/username/.pam_mount.conf

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Grant Torresan [mailto:gtorresan at itemus.com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:33 PM
-> To: samba-technical at samba.org
-> Subject: RE: Help me make my dream a reality : Mounting smb shares at
-> logi n.
-> 
-> 
-> Ok I'm trying to use this pam_mount stuff.. It works well enough if I
-> specify the volumes to be mounted in /etc/pam_mount.conf , 
-> but if I use the
-> Luserconf option, I get the following error :
-> 
-> File ~/.pam_mount.conf could not be stat'ed
-> User does not own <luserconf>
-> 
-> 
-> below is the contents of my /home/username/.pam_mount.conf :
-> 
-> volume test smb xappserv homes /home/test
-> 
-> 
-> and next is my /etc/pam_mount.conf file :
-> # Turn on if you want to debug why some volume cannot be mounted etc.
-> # This can be overriden by user's local configuration
-> # 
-> # Format: debug [ 1 | 0 ]
-> # Local user configuration can override this.
-> 
-> debug 1
-> 
-> # Users' local configuration file (if there is none, comment out this
-> # parameter). Will be read as ~/<file>
-> #
-> # Format: luserconf <file>
-> 
-> luserconf .pam_mount.conf
-> 
-> # Commands to mount/unmount volumes. They can take 
-> parameters, as shown.
-> 
-> smbmount /bin/mount -t smbfs
-> ncpmount /bin/mount -t ncpfs
-> umount   /bin/umount
-> pmhelper /usr/bin/pmhelper
-> 
-> # Volumes that will be mounted when user triggers pam_mount module
-> # (usually at login).
-> #
-> # Format: volume <user> [ smb | ncp ] <server> <volume> <mount point>
-> #
-> # Local user configuration can extend this.
-> # Mount mount must be owned by the user.
-> 
-> #volume user1 smb krueger public /home/user1/krueger
-> #volume user2 smb krueger public /home/user2/krueger
-> 
-> 
-> I ask you guys only because the docs don't really cover this sort of
-> occurance.
-> 
-> And yes, I can mount this stuff manually.
-> 
-> Thanks
-> 
-> Grant Torresan.
-> 
-> 
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Grant Torresan [mailto:gtorresan at itemus.com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:23 AM
-> To: Chris Hines; samba-technical at samba.org
-> Subject: RE: Help me make my dream a reality : Mounting smb shares at
-> logi n.
-> 
-> 
-> 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
-> > 
-> > 
->