Hello:
Is it possible to directly mount a folder within a windows share using
smbmount? For example:
smbmount //server/share/folder1 /mnt/folder1
This is do-able with a win2k client, but I can not get it to work with
Samba.
Here's my situation: I have a communal Linux system that is operating in
a primarily Windows group, and I want to give each user access to their
windows home directory. The windows sysadm has set up the home
directories on a Windows NT server. The problem is that all of the home
directories are within a single share "UserHomes". The win2k clients
have
no problem mapping the folder (e.g. //server/userhomes/myuser) to a drive,
and I would like to be able to do that with autofs and samba.
Right now, the best I can do is to map the whole share each time:
==auto.master=/windows /etc/auto.windows -t 300
#EOF
==auto.windows=*
-fstype=smbfs,credentials=/home/&/.smbpasswd,uid=&,dmask=0700 \
://server/userhomes
#EOF
This does work, but it adds a useless directory level: a user's (e.g.
'myuser') windows home directory shows up as: /windows/myuser/myuser/*.
In addition, all the other windows users' home directories (but not
directory contents) show up in /windows/myuser.
Is there a solution, or is this a new-feature-request for 3.0+?
Many thanks,
john Siirola
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
