[Samba] Mount logon Home dir on Linux (CTM)

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> So the question for this list would be: how can I query a Windows NT 
> PDC (no ldap) about a user's home directory. That script may need to 
> have an administrator password to be able to query the PDC.

I found the answer to this one. It should be pretty easy with a few 
lines of Perl. Tthis is how you can use rpcclient to find out:

 $ rpcclient -W DomainName -U AnyUserName%ThatUsersPassword -I 
192.168.1.x -c "queryuser $USER_RID" ServerName

This will output info like

        Home Drive  :
        Dir Drive   :
        Profile Path:
        Logon Script:  

etc.

To get the $USER_RID which you need for that query, first do:

 $ rpcclient -W DomainName -U AnyUserName%ThatUsersPassword -I 
192.168.1.x -c "lookupnames $USER_NAME" ServerName

it will tell you something like this
...
$USER_NAME S-1-5-21-235741621-998855438-184960113-1063 (User: 1)

The $USER_RID you want is 1063.
To get it with Perl, it would look something like

  my ($USER_RID) = /.*-(\d+)/;

(once you have the right output line in $_)

Once you know where the user's home is, you can mount it through nfs, 
and authentication should be automatic if the Linux side of things is 
configured correctly.