samba - Aug 2002 - Mounting past the share level (\\server\share\path)

I've run into a bit of a stoppage here.  Let me briefly describe the
situation --

I have one Windows 2000 PDC.  This holds the SAM we authenticate to across
all of our machines via Kerberos5 or RADIUS.

I have a few Linux boxen.  They are each running winbind, and it runs
flawlessly.

What I would like to do is mount each user's Windows 2000 home directory
(\\server\share\username) under linux as the same home directory.

I can set the home directory in winbind.
I can mount an arbitrary samba path on login, as the user, via smbpwman.
I can't issue a mount request to samba so that it understands anything past
the share level.

Any ideas?

-reijo

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Gregory Longfellow wrote:
> What I would like to do is mount each user's Windows 2000 home
directory
> (\\server\share\username) under linux as the same home directory.
> 
> I can set the home directory in winbind.
> I can mount an arbitrary samba path on login, as the user, via smbpwman.
> I can't issue a mount request to samba so that it understands anything
past
> the share level.
> 
> Any ideas?
I have some patches for smbmount and the kernel to allow this.

It makes smbmount understand \\server\share\username and passes the
"\username" bit to smbfs and makes smbfs use that string as the base
for
all pathnames (instead of just "\").

Seems to work for arbitrary depths, but it's not very well tested.


I posted that on samba-technical, but I can dig them up for you if you 
give me some time.

/Urban