[Samba] Automount homes via smb question

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:36:05PM -0800, Mike Ely wrote:
> I'm working on a client setup for thin-client machines in an AD with 
> about 2000 users.  One of the requirements is that the server (an LTSP 
> box) not store each and every user's home directory.  All of our users 
> have a Home Folder setting in their AD object, and I'd like to use 
> samba to mount that as "home."
> 
> What works now:
> smbd, nmbd, winbindd.  Compiled Samba 3.0 onto a SuSE 9.0 box and have 
> all the basic stuff configured.  KDM lists all of the domain users 
> "DOMAIN+username" and I can su to any of them from the shell.  If I try 
> to login to a KDE session, it won't work of course, because there's no 
> home directory.  But auth works right - if I give a bogus password, I 
> get failed login error =]
> Also, smbmount and smbclient work right, either with kerberos or via 
> login prompt.
> 
> What I need to get working:
> A switch so that any domain user logging on will automatically have 
> home mapped to their share on the win2k server (we have 3 fileservers 
> for the user accounts).
> 
> In an earlier message, Jerry pointed me to pam_mount.so, which I see in 
> /lib/security, but I don't have any documentation on how to use it, and 
> so far google hasn't brought any joy either.  Can someone help?

This is all quite possible, but we need to do a bit of work to
intergrate the components.  Currently pam_winbind can't tell pam_mount
what server to mount, for example.  Also, we have the problem of
special files over CIFS - your Win2k server probably will not like
attemptes to create symbolic links.

At the very least what we need to do is modify pam_winbind to store a
token containing the homedir location, for pam_mount to pinch.

Andrew Bartlett