samba - Jul 2005 - Mount logon Home dir on Linux (CTM)

I will try to explian it better this time.
	
	I have a Windows NT 4.0 Server, that is the PDC on my network. I also 
have a FC3 Samba 3 server that is the file server, where most of logon 
home dirs are stored. In the NT PDC i set up most users to map Z: drive 
to \\MY_SAMBA_SERVER\username
	In the Win XP workstations everithing is wrking realy fine. Now i want 
to set up some Linux Fedora Core 4 Workstations too. I already installed 
the FC4, samba and winbind, everithing working fine too. I can log in in 
linux using my NT password.
	Just what I need now is to mount the logon home dir to the users who 
log in in the linux workstation. I didnt found out reading the docs and 
looking in the internet how can I do it (and IF I can). I can run a 
logon script that mounts \\MY_SAMBA_SERVER\username using smbmount, but 
that has 2 problems: firist, it will ask the password, but how i can 
make the script know the password? And the second problem: some users 
dont have the logon home dir in the MY_SAMBA_SERVER.
	So I think probably there is a better way to do it, maybe using pam.d, 
i dont know. Anyone could help me on that?

    Thanks for any help,
Cristian T. Moecke
LMP-UFSC

I suppose you will have to add some scripting to manage the Linux 
clients. A script could ask the NT PDC about the user's home, and then 
mount it directly through nfs.

So the question for this list would be: how can I query a Windows NT PDC 
(no ldap) about a user's home directory. That script may need to have an 
administrator password to be able to query the PDC.

Hi Cristian,
>     So I think probably there is a better way to do it, maybe using
> pam.d, i dont know. Anyone could help me on that?
We use a samba 3 server with a ldap backend on debian. For the linux
workstations (ubuntu) we use pam_mount to mount their shares over cifs.
We use CIFS since they seemed to work better with 'special' files like
lockfiles under kde.

pam_mount can be found here:
http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/

I hope this gives you a starting point.


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Rens