hi jeff, the smbmount/smbfs has been in samba for some time -- i really don't remember since when. i would tend to concur that ldap is probably the best solution for cheng, although the fact that the windowz user may change his/her password has no impact provided that the samba user is declared locally on the windows box (hence my question about what version of windowz) ...
cheers christopher cuse -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Kinz Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mount win shares to Linux automatically - possible? On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:59:00PM +0100, christopher cuse wrote: > hi cheng > > you can mount remote windows shares provided that you have installed samba. > once installed, try a line similar to this in your /etc/fstab file > > //drs1/c$ /mnt/caca smbfs password=mypassword,username=ccuse 0 0 > > where drs1 is the netbios name of the windows box, c$ is the share name, and > username and password accordingly. > Hi Chris - this is a great solution. Extremely useful for most installations. Where did you find it? I know some folks are worried about the clear text password issue but if someone who has root on their system isn't suppoed to be reading the fstab file, then they much bigger problems... :-) For the folks who win users have their passwords changed at "frequent" intervals their is a way to authenticate samba access through authentication facilities on the Linux box. At least one of these is, I believe, LDAP based and the others are PAM based. (AFAIK). Those techniques would be useful for environments which do force password changes. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
