Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount a windows share. I can do:
smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI that can mount the Windows Share, specifically can't figure out how to enter the password.
I'm trying make things as simple as possible for windows students to use CentOS.
Thanks,
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis Denis.Becker@mnsu.edu wrote:
Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount a windows share. I can do:
smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI that can mount the Windows Share, specifically can't figure out how to enter the password.
I'm trying make things as simple as possible for windows students to use CentOS.
Then this CentOS wiki is your friend:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares
Akemi
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, DenisDenis.Becker@mnsu.edu wrote:
Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount a windows share. I can do:
smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI that can mount the Windows Share, specifically can't figure out how to enter the password.
I'm trying make things as simple as possible for windows students to use CentOS.
Then this CentOS wiki is your friend:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares
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Thanks, I looked there. But I was looking for something that would easily disconnect and maybe do it automatically when the user was logged out. This will be used in a small lab setting where there will be an single login so I don't want to leave one person's account mounted for the next person to have be able to access. I guess I am looking for something that would function like NIS. I guess an option is to run NIS and then a person can have the some of this customized for the user.
Denis Becker
On 9/17/2010 4:48 PM, Denis wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, DenisDenis.Becker@mnsu.edu wrote:
Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount a windows share. I can do:
smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI that can mount the Windows Share, specifically can't figure out how to enter the password.
I'm trying make things as simple as possible for windows students to use CentOS.
Then this CentOS wiki is your friend:
Thanks, I looked there. But I was looking for something that would easily disconnect and maybe do it automatically when the user was logged out. This will be used in a small lab setting where there will be an single login so I don't want to leave one person's account mounted for the next person to have be able to access. I guess I am looking for something that would function like NIS. I guess an option is to run NIS and then a person can have the some of this customized for the user.
If you already have a windows server/domain with all the accounts you can do smb authentication against it instead of setting up nis. Just run system-config-authentication and enable it, configuring the domain and controllers to use. You still have to create matching accounts on the server but you don't have to manage separate passwords. It doesn't quite solve your problem but it gives you a home directory where you can add things per user - and maybe there's a way to get the automounter to do it.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Denis Denis.Becker@mnsu.edu wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, DenisDenis.Becker@mnsu.edu wrote:
Thanks, I looked there. But I was looking for something that would easily disconnect and maybe do it automatically when the user was logged out. This will be used in a small lab setting where there will be an single login so I don't want to leave one person's account mounted for the next person to have be able to access. I guess I am looking for something that would function like NIS. I guess an option is to run NIS and then a person can have the some of this customized for the user.
That is exactly the same situation as mine. We are a small lab with a single account shared by all members (mixed OS with Windows/Scientific Linux/CentOS). On the Linux machines, Windows shares get auto-mounted when user tries to access them and unmounted after certain inactivity. I'm using the "3. Even-better method" on the wiki.
Akemi
Denis wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, DenisDenis.Becker@mnsu.edu wrote:
Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount a windows share. I can do:
smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI that
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the next person to have be able to access. I guess I am looking for something that would function like NIS. I guess an option is to run NIS and then a person can have the some of this customized for the user.
Um, you want some security for their mounts, then you want to run NIS? That's long been known as very insecure, back from when the 'Net was a much kinder place. I hate to say LDAP, but....
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