I have not been folowing this thread, but though I should mention a tool I wrote to do this.
It is a program called smbautomount which builds an automount string. You can specify a template for each autmount directory but it does not solve the problem of accounts on different machines though. If you have /home/students /home/staff and all students are on studentsvr1 and all staff on staffsvr1 then it will work. I also have a pam module which steals the users password when they log in. The password can then be used by smbmount. All this is on my web page here http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/index.html John. Johnston, Christopher (DCSA) wrote: > Yea I have tried using the automount.. the tough thing is.. we have alot of users.. >so maintaing an auto-map can be really tough.. > > Christopher Johnston > Merrill Lynch / DCSA > (201) 671-2368 > http://linux.worldnet.ml.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Urban Widmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:47 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: Johnston, Christopher (DCSA); Stieglitz, Eric J. (DCSA); 'Jim McDonough'; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: FW: samba woes > > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > >>"Johnston, Christopher (DCSA)" wrote: >> >>>what is that exactly? I am looking for a method to automount NT >>>shares from windows to linux.. so my users can access their home >>>directories.. >>> >>The common way to do that *kind* of thing would be by using SMBFS. My >>*guess* (because I really have not spent enough time working with >>SMBFS) is that the problem you're seeing is that you want a >>user-context mount (that is, only the user who mounted the share >>should be able to see the share), but you can't get that with SMBFS. >> > > You can give only a single user access to the mount. But it will be visible to >others (inaccessible perhaps, but visible). > > An autofs map for /home looking like this could be a starting point: > username1 -fstype=smbfs,credentials=/etc/samba/cred1,uid=username1 \ > ://server/share > username2 -fstype=smbfs,credentials=/etc/samba/cred2,uid=username2 \ > ://server/share > ... > > I think the RH suggestion was something like this, but with a script that generates >the map (see executable maps in the autofs docs). > > > pam_mount is also sometimes mentioned for this kind of thing, mount things when >people login based on their username/password. > > > >>I don't know if Steve's CIFS VFS bypasses that. He just made it >>available last week, I think... >> > > I understand there are plans to support accessing as different users on a single >mount, and that is relevant if you want to mount /home and not each of the >subdirectories as well as if you want users > to access each others dirs as themselves. > > But that's more the opposite of being invisible to other users. > > /Urban > > > > > > -- Information Technology Innovation Group Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn