Hello all,
My workplace has decided to adventure to lands of embedded Linux. As I am
the only one in my department with prior Linux experience, I was given the
task of setting up a Linux workstation that will be used as the host machine
for our embedded system. Since my only Linux experience with anything but
Gentoo is with Debian, and it's a bad experience, I have chosen to make the
host Gentoo-Linux.
Everything is well, and the machine is running and officially I completed my
task, but something still bothers me:
The machine is connect to the company's computer network. In the Windows
workstations, I log into a user that exists on the company's servers, and
not on the individual workstations, and when I log certain network shares
get mounted automatically (for example, "My Documents" sits on the server)
and so on. My username and password are used automatically everywhere on the
network, and so on. I assume this is the working of Active Directory, but my
assumption maybe mistaken... Anyway, I want to duplicate this behavior on
the Gentoo box, and I could find any documentation about it that I found to
be relevant. For now, I have a small script in /etc/profile.d/ that mounts
important shares, although the localizations is some what wrong and
non-English files appear as question marks (They should be in Hebrew). Can
anyone help me or point to some howto, guide, whatever that I might have
missed?