[K12OSN] Volume Mounting Question

[Kemp, Levi]

Sorry we are a bit Mircocentric over here. I'm authenticating against
Server 2003. My only problem is when changing the pam_mount settings my
users now have to enter domain+username instead of just username. I'd
like to fix it but no time really. Besides for web access email on
exchange they have to enter in domain\username, unless they user firefox
;-) I don't know for sure but I'd assume that if you are already
authenticating against a netware server that pam_mount should be able to
mount your shares if they are setup like ours are with permissions
attached to the user. Fstab caused me more headaches than I can
remember, considering I didn't even know it was causing my problems.
Pam_mount took care of all my permissions issues, r/w problems, etc. Not
to mention on the file server I can actually see who is accessing files
again, instead of just the user in the fstab line, that always bugged me
from a security standpoint.

Levi Kemp
Technology Specialist
Bolivar R-I School District
417-328-8943
lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Korzeniewski
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:16 AM
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Volume Mounting Question
> 
> Thanks Levi, that did the trick. 
> 
> Are you using pam_mount with netware? If so, does it 
> authenticate and mount the home directory and / or process 
> the login script? Does it require using a FDN for login or 
> can it detect the context? I did some searching for something 
> that could do all of this but couldn't find anything that 
> suited my needs. I didn't look too deeply at pam_mount though.
> 
> I ended up writing a utility for ubuntu to make it easier for 
> the other guys in our dept to switch away from windows. It 
> basically takes a username and pwd and looks up the context 
> and home directory for a user and mounts it. I extended it to 
> mount other shares as well. I converted this over to k12ltsp6 
> for the students who have their home directories and it works 
> fairly well, but the students have to log in twice (until I 
> set up autologin). http://sourceforge.net/projects/jkmount
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> -Joe Korzeniewski
> 
> >>> "Kemp, Levi" <lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us> 10/16/07 8:58 AM >>>
> You could hide the mountpoint. /mnt/.mountpoint That seemed 
> to work for me, though I just swicthed all my mounts from 
> fstab to pam_mount.
> 
> Levi Kemp
> Technology Specialist
> Bolivar R-I School District
> 417-328-8943
> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Korzeniewski
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:55 AM
> > To: k12osn at redhat.com
> > Subject: [K12OSN] Volume Mounting Question
> > 
> > I have a k12ltsp6 server set up to mount the root of a 
> netware volume 
> > so that I can let young students all save to a shared 
> location. I have 
> > two different problems. I can get the netware volume to 
> mount in fstab 
> > using this line:
> > 
> > server/.user.context /mnt/mountpoint ncp 
> > uid=root,gid=users,mode=777,owner=root,A=dns.address.org,volum
> > e=VOL1,passwd=pwd,multiple 0 0
> > 
> > My problems are these:
> > 
> > 1) I haven't found a way to mount a particular subdirectory of this 
> > volume rather than the volume root... this wouldn't be a problem if 
> > not for problem 2 which is:
> > 
> > 2) When this mounts, it automatically puts an icon on everybody's 
> > desktop pointing to the root of the volume. Any idea how to 
> make this 
> > not show up?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > -Joe Korzeniewski
> > 
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