[Samba] Re: FW: samba woes

[John Newbigin]

I have not been folowing this thread, but though I should mention a tool 
I wrote to do this.

It is a program called smbautomount which builds an automount string. 
You can specify a template for each autmount directory but it does not 
solve the problem of accounts on different machines though.

If you have
/home/students
/home/staff

and all students are on studentsvr1 and all staff on staffsvr1 then it 
will work.

I also have a pam module which steals the users password when they log 
in.  The password can then be used by smbmount.

All this is on my web page here
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/index.html

John.

Johnston, Christopher (DCSA) wrote:

> Yea I have tried using the automount.. the tough thing is.. we have alot of users.. so maintaing an auto-map can be really tough.. 
> 
> Christopher Johnston
> Merrill Lynch / DCSA
> (201) 671-2368
> http://linux.worldnet.ml.com
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Urban Widmark [mailto:urban at teststation.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: 'crh at umn.edu'
> Cc: Johnston, Christopher (DCSA); Stieglitz, Eric J. (DCSA); 'Jim McDonough'; samba-technical at samba.org; 'samba at samba.org'
> Subject: Re: FW: samba woes
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> 
>>"Johnston, Christopher (DCSA)" wrote:
>>
>>>what is that exactly?  I am looking for a method to automount NT 
>>>shares from windows to linux.. so my users can access their home 
>>>directories..
>>>
>>The common way to do that *kind* of thing would be by using SMBFS. My 
>>*guess* (because I really have not spent enough time working with
>>SMBFS) is that the problem you're seeing is that you want a 
>>user-context mount (that is, only the user who mounted the share 
>>should be able to see the share), but you can't get that with SMBFS.
>>
> 
> You can give only a single user access to the mount. But it will be visible to others (inaccessible perhaps, but visible).
> 
> An autofs map for /home looking like this could be a starting point:
> username1	-fstype=smbfs,credentials=/etc/samba/cred1,uid=username1 \
> 	://server/share
> username2	-fstype=smbfs,credentials=/etc/samba/cred2,uid=username2 \
> 	://server/share
> ...
> 
> I think the RH suggestion was something like this, but with a script that generates the map (see executable maps in the autofs docs).
> 
> 
> pam_mount is also sometimes mentioned for this kind of thing, mount things when people login based on their username/password.
> 
> 
> 
>>I don't know if Steve's CIFS VFS bypasses that.  He just made it 
>>available last week, I think...
>>
> 
> I understand there are plans to support accessing as different users on a single mount, and that is relevant if you want to mount /home and not each of the subdirectories as well as if you want users
> to access each others dirs as themselves.
> 
> But that's more the opposite of being invisible to other users.
> 
> /Urban
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