On Tue, September 26, 2006 18:38, TimJowers at Yahoo.Com wrote: > Hi James, > I'd like to know the configuration you have working. We can mount > Windows shares but the SMB connection dialog seems to hang. Kill > it and the drive is actually mounted. Still trying to master it myself. I used authconfig to set the connection parameters on the Linux box to authenticate against the domain controllers using winbind. The detailed instructions can be found online here: http://www.redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=858 This recipe sets up the Linux station to use active directory as the authentication system and so our users can login on the station as brockley\username and use their domain password without problem. Users can also see all of the machines on the domain from within Nautilus but when they click on a machine to see its shares then they get a permissions error. Apparently their windows credentials are not supplied to nautilus and the access mode set on the windows NTFS5 is equivalent to " root:root rwx------- " I would like to avoid having to statically mount the shares with explicitly assigned credentials but I cannot find any documentation on how to configure nautilus or CentOS to use the login credentials to access available network shares dynamically. I suspect that this problem needs to be solved on the windows side of thing and I am presently reviewing the documentation at: http://ca.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/AccessControls.html#id2616824 To see if I can figure this stuff out sufficiently to get the domain shares visible to ordinary users of the Linux station. I have also read through the Microsoft documentation on sfu but I find it incredibly dense going. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/sfu3perm.mspx Regards, Jim -- James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3