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

["robert anstuther" <robert.anstruther@gigle.biz>]

Hi, is it not just down to having a smbusers file for mapping linux to
windows user names?





> 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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