[Samba] Mapping/mount smb file systems without using password

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Jun 19 08:13:15 GMT 2003


On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:05, Brett Hales wrote:
> I have been working on getting a Linux workstation to authenticate
> against a W2K ADS. I have this working successfully using
> WinBind/PAM/Samba.
> 
> I would now like to go one step further and mount/map the Windows
> network drives for the logged in client.
> 
> I have looked at the man page for smbclient, is it possible to pass
> through the winbind password that was used for gdm authentication
> through to mount.smb so the user does not have to type the password more
> than once?

See 'pam_mount'.  That's the way it's meant to work, but I suspect there
are still bugs in the process - I think we need to do some work on it.

Andrew Bartlett

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