G T Smith wrote:
Manne Merak wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Manne Merak wrote:
> On this subject; does anyone know why there is no "use Linux user and > passwd for samba logins" option? (or is there?) > The only one that comes to mind is smbpasswd.
Yes - there's no nice GUI for setting all this up.
Actually, there is. It's in "Personal Settings", under "Internet & Network, though I haven't done much there.
Ahh, I remember that now. However, it doesn't correctly setup permissions. I had tried it several times and ended up needing to go to the smb.conf file and mucking about.
Well, this is not really what Im after. I want to tell smbmount to use my current logged-in linux username and password to login to shares. So aslong as I keep my local password synced with the windows network password all is well. The KDE control panel helps alot - I use it at the moment - It just needs a check box saying - "Use local login credentials". At fail it should come up with login dialog.
Manne
Two useful links below...
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/pam.html
part of the excellent array of samba docs...
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Authentication-in-Samba/
and something just picked up from a quick google.
I looked at PAM before and it is the proper solution. But why isnt it one of the obvious options in KDE or Gnome - or smbmount? Seems so obvious to me to try and login with my local user and passwd first, before prompting the user? Maybe its just me. To even further hijack this thread - I said this before on this list, I believe the KDE and Gnome management of smb, sshfs etc is flawed. These services must be handled like USB sticks and cameras are handled - mounted as needed and unmounted on request or after timeout. There are some solution out there - but again KDE and Gnome have their own idea of how to handle these and is not looking into including a cross-window-manager solution. Manne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org