Hi I use linux 2.6.8, kde 3.3 and samba 3.0.7 on server and clients. I use ldap to store user accounts. On client side I want to use pam_automount to mount homedirs with pam. For testing i use a singele pc as server and client 1. I've created a user test. 2. I've mounted test's homedir with: mount -t cifs -o username=test //127.0.0.1/test2 /home/test 3. Mounting works correct. I had a problem with a symlink used by kde because the link fiename contains a ":" with will be mangeled. after turning mangle case of this link is also ok 4. When I nw start kde it will hang. I was happy because recent versions of samba are supportings symlinks but kde stilldoesn't work Does anyone of you have an idea why? Anyone gt an idea to find the reason kde won't start? Cheers, Tilo
> mount -t cifs -o username=test //127.0.0.1/test2 /home/test > >Not to completely dodge the question, but are you intending to always mount back to localhost or another unix machine for your automount sources? You may want to look at nfs for unix-unix remote fs tasks. Samba is fantastic for it's purpose, but you're doing a double conversion here. That being a posix filesystem which samba makes look like cifs on the server, then the samba client takes cifs and makes it look like a posix filesystem. -- -- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com
Hi, We use the exact same setup as you. We found NFS too insecure for our tastes aswell. Here are our experiences with it: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2004-November/000477.html ( http://tinyurl.com/55ofl ) and: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2004-November/000485.html ( http://tinyurl.com/6wfc5 ) I haven't gotten gotten around to testing the kernel-patch yet but my buddy said kde works properly now. -- Rens