[Samba] incorporating linux machines in windows network

mourik jan c heupink heupink at merit.unu.edu
Thu Mar 13 09:08:56 GMT 2008


Hi all,

We have been running samba servers for a few years now. All is running 
very well. Lately we are seeing more and more linux workstations in our 
network. We've always helped them to manually map shares etc, which 
works well. But we are really looking for a way to automatically create 
the necessary drives (mounts) upon logging into the network. (with 
something like a linux equivalent of the windows logon script)

I know of autofs, but (the way I see it now?) this is not scalable nor 
automatically, because it needs to have the username/password to use in 
a file. It can't work as 'the currently logged-in' user. (please correct 
me if I'm wrong!)

So... What you you people here use? Is there a solution for this, other 
than manually configuring each workstation? Or should I use something 
else? NFS?

btw: sles10 servers, samba/openldap, xp / ubuntu workstations.

Regards,
Mourik Jan


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