Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
- succes.
- this is how-to let a wintendo mashine deliver home-dirs to a linux box.
- on win: create the share, name it (say) wintendo. Create a user named root, give him a password, set it to never expire and it should not be changed uppon first login. Give this user root all rights to the wintendo share.
- fire up Konqueror, type in an URL like this: SMB://IP-of-win-machine/wintendo
-and check that root has access and all. Close konqueror.
Now, on the Linux box, edit /etc/fstab. Comment out the mount for /home (you DID put that on a partition for itself, right?).
Add a line to fstab:
(the next two lines is in fact ONE line in fstab... //IP-of-windows-machine/wintendo /home cifs rw,user=root,password=very-secret 0 0
On the linux box, as root, create a dir like this: mkdir /home
Now, as root, reread /etc/fstab, do it with mount -a
Go into YaST. Create a new user, name him whatever, and see that his home-dir indeed now resides on the win-box.
- thanks to the list again for directing me !
Thanks for the report, I'd be curious to hear what sort of difficulties you encounter down the road with this on things like ownerships and permissions, and lack of unix filesystem features. I notice that you have a single /home partition in /etc/fstab, owned by root. Were you able to log in as that user and perform some typical activities which would create, modify, delete, rename files, etc? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org