[Samba] remote home no nfs

[steve]

On 01/05/2012 09:47 AM, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
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> I have a stupid question, but im bit lost, and cant find the solution with google.
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> I have a samba ( debian ) 3.5.8 with ldap running fine.
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> Now i added an extra server en want to login on this server also with ssh.
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> this works but my users are not allowed to write in there own home folder.
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> My setup.
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> server 1: debian squeeze
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> samba 3.5.8 + ldap
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> user folders in /home/users
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> server 2: debian squeeze
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> no samba, i mounted the the remote  folder ( home/users ) on this server in /home/users
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> ( only smbfs and smbclient installed )
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> getent passwd and getent group gives my users and groups.  ( done with nsswitch and libnss-ldap and libpam-nss )
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> I can login with ssh or telnet so this works fine.
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> I think the mounted home folder is done wrong, but i need a hint
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> this is what i have in /etc/fstab.
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> //192.168.XXX.2XX/users$    /home/users cifs domain=BAZUIN,username=Administrator,password=XXXXXXX                0       0
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> yes i know nfs is also an option, but not for me :-( .
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> anyone suggestions, this would me my day really good.
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> Louis
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As you have it, only Administrator will be able to write to /home/users. 
With cifs I don't think you can have a wildcard for username= and 
password=, which is what you'd need. I struggled with this:

http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg116463.html

The gurus here told me it was not possible. That's when I had to go with 
nfs.

HTH
Steve