Automount Samba home directory?

Miskell, Craig Craig.Miskell at agresearch.co.nz
Tue Feb 20 19:54:30 UTC 2007


Pam_mount may be your friend, although I'm not sure if it can mount the
entire home dir (it can certainly do a subdir of the users homedir)

Craig 

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> Christopher Angel
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> Subject: Automount Samba home directory?
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> Hi all,
>  
> We're trying to set up a system where clients can automount a 
> Samba home directory as their home dir.
>  
> Our problem - Samba requires a login/password to allow you to 
> mount a directory, which, even though the username is easy to 
> parse out during login, the password required isn't.  
>  
> Anyone know of a method we can use?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
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