Re: [Samba] User home directories on a windows server question.

2009-03-16 Thread Derek Harkness
Ya that's not really an option, I don't control the AD servers, so no suf or schema extensions. But what I'm finding make it pretty clear there is no way to replace NFS with SMB for a large multiuser system. I find that very disappointing given the age of the samba project. I really figur

Re: [Samba] User home directories on a windows server question.

2009-03-14 Thread Per-Erik Persson
I had a similair problem a couple of years ago. I tried to get the users credentials to automaticly map the homedirectories off the windows machine. I never got it working. In theory it should since the users got a kerberos ticket while they logged on to linux. But I could not spend to much time on

[Samba] User home directories on a windows server question.

2009-03-13 Thread Derek Harkness
Okay I've run out of cool ideas and am hoping that someone can offer a brilliant solution to this problem. I'm attempting to deploy a RHEL 5.3 server as a shared ssh servers, user home directories are coming off a Windows 2008 fileserver. I though autofs would be the winning solution but i