Re: Samba automount as a home directory

hmmm yeah the uid/gid might be a problem. Not sure how can approach
this I will read over that Hants thing
Thanks Steve

Steven Kurylo wrote:

>> Ah , I was hoping not to add the client to the domain (IE winbind).
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> As far as I can tell, the pam_mount stuff it independent of
> samba/winbind.
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>> 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.
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> CIFS is the new SMBFS. Its much better. But if you're not going to
> synchronize your user databases (NIS, winbind, etc), your uid/gid
> permissions will be wonky.
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>> 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
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> If you check the man page for mount.cifs, it claims to support
> kerberos. So does mount.smbfs I've never tried it. You could
> probably set pam up to use the use the local user, get a kerberos
> ticket, then mount their home directory.