Problem with smb shares.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:33:30PM +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> Hello akonstam,
> 
> Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 3:50:19 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:12:12AM -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> >> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:23:44 +0100, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> >> > akonstam at trinity.edu schrieb:
> >> > >
> >> > > Well here is the deal. The managers of the system put users, faculty,
> >> > > etc. in different subdirectories. When I use the first smbmount I
> >> > > mount not the directory of csldap1 but the directory of all the
> >> > > home directories of users of the system. I might be able to live with
> >> > > that but it is annoying. Not to make a value judgement but MAC OS X
> >> > > allows you to mount  using the share: //trinity-tigers/users/csldap1
> >> > > to mount only the home directory of csldap1.
> >> > i see 2 problems here:
<snip>
> 
> > I recently received a clarification from out Windows people that the
> > share is really //trinity-tigers/users so technically smbmount is
> > doing what it is advertised to do but Windows 2000 and XP allow you to
> > mount one level below the share. I am getting the feeling that
> > smbmount will not.
> > -- 
> 
> Smbmount will not, AFAIK. However what would prevent you from mounting
> this share to some directory, say /mnt/trinity_users and then manage
> subdirectories giving the each user access to the proper one and
> placing symlinks into their home folders?
> Regards,
> Maxim.
> 
I think that is what I will have to do.
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