[K12OSN] wireless and home directories

[Randall Swift]

The laptops are running windows xp. There login id and pswd are the same
for their smba/ldap account.

"Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
writes:
>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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Randy Swift
Network Administrator
Leavitt Area High School
Turner, Maine 04282
(207)225-3533
swift at msad52.k12.me.us