FC3 login to windows domain

hellaperv · 03-21-2005, 04:12 PM

I have a few Redhat 9 & FC3 boxes that I am trying to log into a windows domain using a windows username / password authentication. I have written a working login script that mounts some windows shares using a cedentials file kept locally. Is there a way to mount windows shares using windows username/password authentication so that I don't have to have a credential file stored locally on each machine ?

hob · 03-22-2005, 04:15 PM

Several methods, but it depends on what you're trying to do - are the shares home directories ?

hellaperv · 03-23-2005, 10:03 AM

No hob, they are public shares on the windows server being mounted to home folders on the fc3 box

hob · 03-23-2005, 10:50 AM

If users are logging into Linux systems that have Winbind, using Active Directory accounts, then then you can use the Kerberos options (smbmount -k) so that the user's current credentials are reused.

Automount supports mounting Windows shares, but I haven't used it yet, so I don't know how that works in practice.

hellaperv · 03-23-2005, 01:28 PM

hob,

That didn't work. Here is what I have in my login script.

# Variables
I=/home/$USER/I-Drive
P=/home/$USER/P-Drive

# VERIFY
if ! [ -d "$I" ]
then mkdir $I
fi
if ! [ -d "$P" ]
then mkdir $P
fi

# MOUNT
smbmount //adm-server/I-DRIVE $I smbfs -o -k workgroup=OE1,gid=$USER,rw,user,noauto,0 0
smbmount //adm-server/Personal $P smbfs -o -k workgroup=OE1,gid=$USER,rw,user,noauto,0 0

hellaperv · 03-24-2005, 11:12 AM

Hob,

The user accounts are on an NT domain (No Active Directory). I did however get the ( smbmount -k ) to work somewhat. It just prompts me for a password when mounting the shares. Is there a way to use the cached password ?

hob · 03-24-2005, 02:15 PM

The caching is done by the Kerberos client software on the Linux system, which retains Kerberos credentials passed by a Kerberos server (like AD, NT 4 does not use Kerberos). Since there are no cached Kerberos credentials smbmount then prompts you for a password.

Somebody I was helping on another thread reported success with the pam_mount module for PAM, which will automatically mount shares as part of the login process - presumably this will automatically use the username/password given.