Re: Samba automount as a home directory

Steven Kurylo wrote:

>> Does anyone have experience using a automounted samba share as someones
>> $HOME?
>> I found some info like Enhanced SMBFS/CIFS but handling the password
>> for Samba seems
>> tricky.
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> pam_mount should work
> http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/SambaAuth
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>> I would rather not have samba up and running on the client
>> machine trying to attach to the
>> windows file share that is the users actual SMB file share.
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> I don't know what that means.

Ah , I was hoping not to add the client to the domain (IE winbind).
I was looking at this :
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/pam_smbpass.html
Seems kinda old they are talking about kernel 2.4. Have you looked into
CIFS
is it significantly different from SMBFS. One thing I know is tools like
smbclient supports kerberos hashes
so if you authenticate your Linux client via Kerberos smbclient will
pass the hash and allow you browse,
smbmount does not support this I was hoping a magical cifsmount might