[Samba] How can Windows 2000 mount a share as a service?

[tms3]

Well, Windoze mounted network shares are user specific.  Each user 
profile stores the share that that user uses.  Or in your case when the 
LOGON script is run.  Note LOGON script.  What it looks like you need to 
do is try using DFS.  Add the samba shares to the DFS and have IIS pull 
the shared data from DFS.  I'm fairly certain w2k/2k3 server machines 
can do this.  I've only experimented with DFS so far, but having samba 
shares in DFS is not a problem in my test environment.  You may need to 
use Samba 3.0.4+ for it to work, though I'm not sure.

Malcolm Baldridge wrote:

>I've asked every M$ expert I know, trolled through M$ TechNet, experimented
>with SRVANY/INSTSRV login scripts which hard-code username/passwords to
>login to a Samba 2.2.8a SMB server.  I've experiment with and without the
>"Allow service to interact with Desktop" switch turned on.
>
>I am stuck. :(   I can find no way to mount a share as a service, so that
>IIS can serve web-pages from a shared content directed located on a network
>drive.
>
>When I run my login script when I'm logged in as the Administrator or
>another user, the script works fine.  The share's mounted and available as
>the specified drive letter specified in the script.
>
>I'm using just the standard "net use" as follows:
>
>net use z: \\192.168.0.1\Web mypassword /user:webuser
>
>I've fiddled with adding a domain name to the user, to no avail. I've
>experimented with using the samba server's "Netbios" name as well as DNS
>name, to no avail.
>
>The script only seems to work when SOMEONE is logged into the machine.  When
>it's run as a service, no dice.  It just fails with a single digit error
>code (5, I think).  The error is opaque and non-descriptive.  It's as if SMB
>mounting was specifically prohibited by the OS at some internal bowel juncture.
>
>This is insane.  Surely, people running web-server clusters behind load
>balancers don't manually synchronise their content!  My web application
>accepts user-uploaded files, so I can't use the "manual resync" method
>anyway.  The upload area needs to be shared by all web-server members.
>
>There must be a solution for this very common requirement.  I don't want or
>need a "SAN" block-device-level solution, I want a file-level solution.
>
>If anyone can share some ideas or experise, I would be very grateful.  This
>must be a solved problem somewhere.
>
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