Success!! And a SAMBA/winbind question...

[Tom Kent]

My OPINION on setups like this, it really boils down to personal preference
though.
 
I don't know if I'd recommend making the windows home directories also be
the unix home directories.  Aside from the locking issue, it raises the
problem of getting into setting files they shouldn't be in.  What I would do
is put a link to the "My Documents" folder in their home directory.  That's
all they should ever really be using from the windows box, and it could also
be where they access stuff on the *nix box.  

Using this setup would keep windows settings from being seen on the *nix
box, and all the .* files from being seen on the windows box, if the user
ever goes into their profile directory.  

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Pete Savage
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:58 AM
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Success!! And a SAMBA/winbind question...

Hi guys,

I had it almost working with the users actual home dirs being their
windows home dirs, but there was a problem with file locking that
prevented the user from logging in in gnome, text based was fine. I know
there is some easy integration working going on, lets hope it get's even
easier for Feisty

Pete

Kory Mohr wrote:
>
> Howdy, Clay! Thx much for your message. I did a bit of research, based
> on your message, about keeping SSH authentication. It seems that
> libpam-mount 0.15 might be okay with SSH. I had read that anything
> before 0.10 had issues with SSH.
>
> I'd hate to bring a Server 2003 terminal server into the mix, ie:
>
>
http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~hafidi/terminal-services/homedirs_on_windows_and
_authentication_on_linux.html
>
<http://math.univ-lille1.fr/%7Ehafidi/terminal-services/homedirs_on_windows_
and_authentication_on_linux.html>
>
> There's an excellent write-up on the LTSP site here:
>
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WinIntegration
>
> I'm half tempted just to look into giving the respective home
> directories access via a web browser via authentication since this
> server sits behind our firewall anyway.
>
> I've begun working with pam_mount but am not real clear about how it
> all ties together.
>
> You've given me a good start, Clay. Thx again!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kory
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Clay Berlo [mailto:clay.berlo at dsbn.edu.on.ca]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:19 AM
> *To:* Kory Mohr
> *Cc:* edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Subject:* RE: Success!! And a SAMBA/winbind question...
>
> Kory,
>
> Well, I've done exactly what you're looking for, and it can be a pain
> to configure. Also, it "voids the manufacturer's warranty" (seems to
> have to run in a non-standard configuration that breaks other
> functionality).
>
> Basically, there's a PAM module called pam_mount that allows you to
> automatically mount shares at login. Works very well for ADS/winbind
> authentication and home drive mounting. However, in order to make this
> work, I had to ditch the SSH-based LDM login used by default in
> Edubuntu and switch to pure XDMCP. There seems to be some kind of
> problem passing the authentication token from SSH on to the pam_mount.
>
> So, at least in my experience thus far, you can either have the SSH
> logins found in Edubuntu by default (and have the lovely local devices
> etc. that are in Edgy) or you can have your home drives mounted at
> login. If I could find a way to do both, that would be just perfect!
>
> So, how do you get this working? In short, install the pam_mount
> (apt-get install libpam-mount) and configure it to mount your
> appropriate shares. It's fairly simple, but seems to fail when used in
> combination with SSH. I'd be curious to know if a more recent install
> fixes this, but last I tested a couple of weeks ago with Edgy, it
> still had issues.
>
> Good luck!
>
> ~Clay
>
>  


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