Hi Tom, Take a look at this doc. It uses ubuntu, but for the most part it's agnostic in terms of flavor. The pam.d section is very good. <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto"> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto</a> After your users can authenticate with their Windows domain credentials Basically: 1) install pam_mount 2) Leave all of the stuff at the top alone and at the bottom of the file configure /etc/security/pam_mount.conf to look something like: volume * smbfs FILE_SERVER DIRECTORY_W-STND_SHARES /home/WINDOWS/&/.windowsShare uid=&,gid=&,dmask=750,workgroup=YOUR_WIN_DOMAIN - - This file will: a) look for the fileserver by name or ip (i added to file server to my /etc/hosts file just to be sure). b) mount the shared directory c) mount the share whereever you want it to be in this case in /home/WINDOWS/domain_user/.hiddenfile (pam_mount will auto-magically create this if it doesn't exist, I believe) d) Then I use a little script to in /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default to create a shortcut on the desktop which points to the hidden windows share. It's not quite right yet, but you can try it out: #!/bin/sh zd=/home/WINDOWS/$USER/Desktop/ZDrive if [ ! -L $zd ] then rm -f /home/VANGUARD/$USER/Desktop/ZDrive ln -s $HOME/.windowsShare/*/$USER $zd fi Hope this helps. John <div>On 11/17/06, Tom Wolfe <<a href="mailto:twolfe@sawback.com">twolfe@sawback.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Good news: I've got a functioning lab of 20 ancient machines composed of 1996 IBM 350s and a bunch of custom PIII machines from the late 1990s. The principal is psyched and the teachers are psyched. It's quite the sight, all of that ancient hardware spitting out a KDE desktop. I'm planning on adding another 15-workstation lab on the other side of the school powered by the same server, we'll see how that works. No sound yet, I gave up the fight last week and am hoping for divine intervention on that one. Teachers seem far less discouraged by that than I though. Now I just have to get things moving with domain logons and home directories. Can anyone suggest a helpful how-to on configuring K12LTSP logons to Active Directory...? Or should I just hit the samba docs? I've already got authentication working, and I think I just need to configure the pam.d configs. Regards, Tom Wolfe _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>