[K12OSN] Pam Mount Multiple Connections

[Joel Buchan]

Zouhir.Hafidi at math.univ-lille1.fr wrote:

>>Hey Everyone hope you can help me out I have set up a small lab of 6
>>terminals and using this guide
>>http://math.univ-lille1.fg/~hafidi/terminal-services/index.html I have
>>been able to authenticate to a Windows 2003 server as well as pam
>>mounting the users home dirs.  The problem I am having is if more than
>>one user is logs in  Pam mount seems to fail it doesn't mount their home
>>drive, so it seems to me that it only works for one user at a time, is
>>this normal?  As soon as the user (the one that Pam mount worked for)
>>logs out and their home directory is unmounted everything is fine again
>>for the next lucky user but only the first one.  Any one have any
>>ideas?  I feel that I am so close to getting it working in a way that
>>the administration would be happy and I would be able to expand and
>>bring more labs online.  Thanks is advance.
>>
>>    
>>
>This is a W2K3 issue...
>
>By default, the Windows Server 2003 Domain Controllers require SMB signing
>which in this case prevents you from doing multiple mounts with different
>users. You have 2 workarounds for this:
>
>1) Disable SMB signing on W2K3:
>
>- From "Administrative Tools" open "Domain Controller Security Policy"
>- Select "Local Policies" ---> "Security Options" folder
>- Double-click "Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications
>(always)", and then click Disabled to prevent SMB packet signing
>from being required.
>- Click OK.
>- Reboot or run "gpupdate" to apply the Group Policy change.
>
>2) Leave SMB signing enabled on W2K3 and apply a cifs patch (I haven't
>tested this):
>https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2369
>
>hope this helps,
>ZH
>
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Thanks changed the setting of the W2k3 server and everything seems ok.