[Samba] I've gone full circle now, let's start over

[Sven Schwedas]

On 2014-05-22 17:22, Steve Campbell wrote:
> But I'm retiring in a
> few months, and I have to pass on the Linux responsibilities to a new
> person, and Samba user management is all new to us here.

AD is standard procedure everywhere for over a decade now, VMs aren't
that much younger either. So whatever new guys you hire, they'll
probably be more familiar with the new setup than whatever you have now.

> The main problem is still how to have users log on to their machine
> and have their drives mapped to the shares without user intervention.

Just put a batch file in autostart, as long as you have a way to tell
what department those users are in.

If you want to centrally manage users, there's no practicable way around
an LDAP/NT domain (samba 3) or an Active Directory (samba 4).

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen, / Best Regards,
Sven Schwedas
Systemadministrator
TAO Beratungs- und Management GmbH | Lendplatz 45 | A - 8020 Graz
Mail/XMPP: sven.schwedas at tao.at | +43 (0)680 301 7167
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