Hi, I have Samba setup on a Debian server and have implemented roaming desktops for the windows clients. In this network, there are also LINUX clients that i would like to use roaming desktops and the users be able to access their home directory on the server when they login to one of these linux clients. Is this possible using Samba? And can anyone point me to a website/tutorial or any information regarding this? I have searched a lot and have not found much related to my problem. Thanks in advance!! Jim
It occurs to me that you would need two things. One is to have Samba do the authentication for the Linux clients. Samba.org has a howto on this topic. The other is to mount /home as a share from the server during bootup. With Samba authentication and /home on a remote volume, you would have difficulty if you don't have a network connection. You may want to try using rsync instead - running as a daemon - to keep selected local home directories synched with the server. Jimmy Perkins wrote:> Hi, > > I have Samba setup on a Debian server and have implemented roaming > desktops > for the windows clients. In this network, there > are also LINUX clients that i would like to use roaming desktops and the > users be able to access their home directory on the server > when they login to one of these linux clients. > > Is this possible using Samba? And can anyone point me to a > website/tutorial > or any information regarding this? I have searched a lot and have not > found much related to my problem. > > Thanks in advance!! > Jim
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 06:55, Jimmy Perkins wrote:> I have Samba setup on a Debian server and have implemented roaming desktops > for the windows clients. In this network, there > are also LINUX clients that i would like to use roaming desktops and the > users be able to access their home directory on the server > when they login to one of these linux clients. > > Is this possible using Samba? And can anyone point me to a > website/tutorial or any information regarding this? I have searched a lot > and have not found much related to my problem.You could try pam_mount - http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/ That combined with pam_winbind and nss_winbind should get you what you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20070410/4015a50a/attachment.bin