Re: [gentoo-server] Mount Samba shares as home

[Alexander Zimmerling <Alexander.Zimmerling@ieee.org>]

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Can you give me some more details?
Is this a file where all smbusers and their passwords are stored?

If yes: this is not an option!

thank you so far

Alex


Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:44 +0200 schrieb robert anstuther:
> Hi, is it not just down to having a smbusers file for mapping linux to
> windows user names?
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I've got a nice problem here.
> >
> > My situation:
> >
> > I have different clients, windows and linux and a gentoo-samba-pdc.
> >
> > As you might know, windows domains are supporting a 'homeshare' which
> > are mounted (mapped) to a specific driveletter (here m:)
> >
> > The windows boxes are domain members. The linux boxes aren't.
> > Some of the users need to login to windows and linux clients. The
> > linux-usernames are unfortunately not equal with the domain-usernames.
> >
> > The generel problem is to provide the logged in linux user the
> > corresponding (domain-user) homeshare.
> >
> > Postings in the forums pointed me to pam_mount.
> >
> > I'll give you an example:
> >
> > Colleague Bob Example.
> >
> > Has a domain-user-login, bob.example. He can login on all windows
> > workstations without any trouble, the share is mapped to m: etc.
> >
> > He has a linux username, also. Just "bob".
> >
> > Bob is an unprivileged user and using this command ends in an error:
> >
> >>>
> > mount.cifs //server/bob.example /home/bob -o user=bob.example
> > <<
> >
> > error returned:
> >>>
> > mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
> > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> > <<
> >
> >
> > As I said the guys in the forum told me to look for pam_mount.
> > I installed this module, set it up in /etc/pam.d/system-auth and
> > configured the /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml
> >
> > added this line:
> >
> >>>
> > <volume user="bob" fstype="cifs" server="server" path="bob.example"
> > options="user=bob.example">
> > <<
> >
> > I saw, that pam_mount uses $(user) to identify the user, and pass this
> > to mount.cifs. I've deleted this part and added
> > options="user=bob.example".
> >
> > Well this is where I'm stucked now.
> >
> > The main problem is that the username on the old linux boxes differing
> > from the domain user names.
> >
> > Do you have any ideas or a better documentation for pam_mount? or had
> > sth similar?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Alex
> >
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