-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. As the Subject line discribes nearly all features/possibilities of interaction bewteen Windows and *nix I will get in detail now ;) I want to login on a linux-machine an get my home from a Windows share. On the one hand I use a Windows 2003 RC2 server - fileserver in an AD / Windows domain. On the other hand I use a linux PC (Ubuntu 8.04 amd64), that gets all login-information via kerberos out of the AD/domain. I added some lines/modified the following files: /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/krb5.conf /etc/pam.d/common-auth /etc/pam.d/common-account Currently users can log in on the linux-pc using their AD-account. So far so good, but actually I wanted to provide a home directory that is mounted (Windows share) during the login-process. I thought pam_mount would be a good choice. First I wanted to test, if the share can be mounted manually after login - - and ups, first problem A user, who could sucessfully log in using the AD/domain, was able to mount the share via smbmount, but he could only list the content - no writing, modifing, ... My first thought: Might be a problem with the right-managemend, so let' s check and ply with them: 1. right of the windows share - share: everyone - full control - NTFS (Security) user, who logs in, has full control - I modified the advanced security settings, the user has full control on the folder, subfolders and files - the user is actually owner of this (shared) folder 2. after (domain)login on the linux machine I created a directory ~/mnt with usualy rights and ownership 3. I used the following options for smbmount: smbmount //W2K3-Server/share mnt/ -o user=AD-user, / domain=AD-Domain,rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=10000, / gid=10004,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 The user-information I fetched via "id": uid=10000(AD-user) gid=10004(dom?nen-benutzer) Gruppen=10001(BUILTIN\users),10004(dom?nen-benutzer),10005(AD-Gruppe1),10006(AD-Gruppe2) Now just a quick look at the lokal rights: ls -ld * drwxrwxrwx 1 AD-user dom?nen-benutzer 0 2008-11-17 17:01 mnt ls -l mnt - -rwxrwxrwx 1 AD-user dom?nen-benutzer 0 2008-11-17 17:00 / copy-test.txt.txt drwxrwxrwx 1 AD-user dom?nen-benutzer 0 2008-09-26 15:22 test123 As smbmount did not work the way I intended - no writing, modifing, ... - - I actually did not try to get lucky with smp_mount. i will try if smbmount works the way I want it to. I tried to mount (smbmount and mount -t smbfs/cifs) as root - surprise, surprise this works. So let's try to write/modify - no chance, neither writing nor modifing :( A quick look at /etc/mtab: more than one line with my mounted windows share exists. How could this happen ?!? I think nearly everyone can use the provided windows share, but not me ;) I tried to solve this problem for one day using google etc. - but could not find a good hint. Does anybody know what goes wrong and give me he hint? Thanks for help/advise best regards Bernd Kohler - -- UMIC - RWTH Aachen http://www.umic.rwth-aachen.de Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 2 52074 Aachen Tel.: +49 241 80 20680 Fax: +49 241 80 22640 E-Mail: kohler@umic.rwth-aachen.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk3mgAACgkQOiq/E1Lch49ZggCgg7Y3s+bQCX7MIy52TDMxTqhf rLEAn3sYFcjuVuOPuzneQxTdlrLjIfEb =k/SJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----