[K12OSN] wireless and home directories

[Petre Scheie]

Assuming the laptop has its own full install of Linux--that is, it's a fat client--there 
are a few different ways you could do it.  One would be to use the automounter to mount 
the home directory over NFS; check out the /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.net files. 
Another way would be to use sshfs which allows a user to mount a remote directory over 
ssh.  It's not clear to me whether the ID & PW used to login on the laptop are the same 
as would be used to access the home directory on the server, but if they're different, 
you could create a script that pops up a dialog box asking for those parameters from the 
user, pass them to sshfs, and put the whole thing in, say, /etc/profile.d. (I did just 
this recently.)

HTH

Petre

Randall Swift wrote:
> I am using a ldap/samba server as my authentication server and I would
> like to know how a wireless laptop can connect to their home directory
> after login (they log in with a cached account). Is there a script that
> can run after the wireless connects so they will have their home
> directory? 
> 
> Randy Swift
> Network Administrator
> Leavitt Area High School
> Turner, Maine 04282
> (207)225-3533
> swift at msad52.k12.me.us
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