[CentOS] Mapping to Samba
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Wed Aug 29 04:01:59 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using GUI methods (read: easy for most users), is there a way to map
>> to a Samba share and have it accessible to all applications? Going
>> through Nautilus I'm able to create a link to the shares, but they're
>> not accessible from many applications. And, obviously, this is going
>> to be something that changes per user (different mappings, different
>> credentials, etc), so I can't use a static mapping on the machines. I
>> could live with /etc/fstab entries if they could be dynamically
>> adjusted based on the user that's logging into the system.
>>
>> How do other people handle this situation?
>
> I cannot think of an easy solution for this. But use of autofs might
> help. It dynamically mounts shares and you may be able to set up
> credential files per user or occasion. See the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares
>
> for howto mount Windows shares using autofs.
>
> Akemi
well... the first thing I thought of was to google *samba login scripts*
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=samba+login+scripts
actually came up with some interesting results. Thing is, for me when
I'm using a linux workstation connecting to a linux file server I've
always been quite happy to use NFS. I do understand that Samba does
offer a different schema for permissions and such, but so far from what
I've seen if you're comfortable configuring login scripts in a windows
environment then it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to do the same
with Linux to linux using samba.
(By the way... the Webmin/SWAT config modules for Samba are quite nice.)
http://www.minks.de/smblogin/
HOWTO Implement Samba as your PDC - Gentoo Linux Wiki
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Implement_Samba_as_your_PDC
And of course there is the grand-daddy of all Samba information sites:
Samba.org
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
--
Mark
"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."
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