[Samba] Linux as an AD Client questions

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 07:37, Aaron Bennett wrote:
> Hello --
> 
> I'm trying to come up with a seamless way for our Red Hat 8  ( and 
> eventually, Mac OS X ) users to access network resources that are shared 
> via our Active Directory.  I'm having a very rough time figuring out 
> exactly how to approach this. 
> 
> Our requirements (ie, pie in the sky wish list) are:
> 
> 1. when logging on to Gnome/KDE via gdm, users must be able to use their 
> AD credentials
> 2. Users must have their home directory from Windows mounted as their 
> Linux home directory
> 3. passwords should remain in sync
> 
> 
> Items 1 & 3 can be accomplished via winbind and pam.  I'm not too 
> worried about that.  But it's item 2 that is the sticky one.  Is there 
> something I'm missing in smbclient or the smbfs kernel support that 
> could somehow pass the login credentials that the machine has received 
> through winbind/pam to mount a directory?

pam_mount.  I have seen reports of it being hacked up to function
correctly.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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