My understanding is that smbmount is not and will not be supported on current and future releases of LINUX. You have to do mount -t smbfs.... There was something about suid - that I didn't understand. I am not ready to move home directory hosting to LINUX - for several reasons... NT server (PDC and BDC) have mirrored technology, software raid and gigabit fibre backbone connections....all of which I don't have on LINUX - and may not even be supported by LINUX....yet. I suppose I could allow pupils to access LINUX files from NT by creating samba shares.....which would need shadow password files....and some script to set it up. ....It would be ideal to do it both ways of course. On Wed 28 Mar, Michael Brown wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Davies wrote:
OK - I'm trying to do it back to front. We have an NT box (several in fact...) which are part of two domains (admin and teac hing) If pupils use LINUX it would be handy if they could connect to their NT account. Root can create a 'mount' using mount -t smbfs //netserver/usershare /home/username/NTmount but ordinary users can't create mounts in this manner. And administrators can't do it faor them as they don't know the passwords. Is there a way to allow users to connect to NT shares with SAMBA?
You're not going to like this answer, but the easiest way to do it is to hold the folders on a Linux machine and serve them via Samba (to NT clients) and NFS (to Linux clients).
If this is not an option:
Do you have a command called "smbmount"? If so, this may help with your problem - you should be able to run
smbmount //netserver/usershare ~/NTmount
as an ordinary user. Of course, you still have to solve the problem of requiring users to re-type their passwords ...
As an alternative, you could look for an NFS server for the NT box. There are a few available, but I have never used any of them so can't comment on which one to go for.
HTH,
Michael
-- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School