samba question, using for authentication to mixed OS clients...
I'm experimenting with a very simply samba config and using windows and linux clients to authenticate using such.
Firstly, I must add that I know there are probably much more polished and secure ways to do this and I am open to suggestions at this point but this is what I've done/tried so far and my question relating to such. samba server running on a slackware 14 box, very basic modifications to smb.conf file so far. (left out unchanged entries) Code:
workgroup = WORKGROUP Code:
useradd 'machinename$' Now to my questions(s) 1) On the Windows machine, after logging in I find a mapped drive "Z" which points to the corresponding users home dir on the server, how has this come about, is this a windows thing or a samba thing, I don't see anything in the smb.conf file that looks responsible. 2) The Linux client does not do this, I have to manually browse to the remote home dir share as I would the tmp share, how would I go about having this home share setup/bookmarked automatically on login to make it easily found without browsing? If this post is in the wrong section, apologies and please move as appropriate. Thanks in advance... |
Did you post the entire smb.conf file?
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With linux you can add a line in the /etc/fstab file to mount the share at boot time or you can create a 'shortcut' in the file browser. I assume you are using Nautilus which has a built in samba client. |
Only the changes at the smb.conf file were shown, I guess I could post whole file if need be.
When I say I added XP and RHEL to the domain, I meant that I added the machine accounts to the samab server as follows: Code:
/usr/sbin/useradd 'machinename$' I'm really only looking for a setup where the samba server can authenticate users to any of the machines that I previously add to the server/domain and would like that when each user logs on, their predefined shares are available. The /etc/fstab part I get but would like the folder to be easily visable, perhaps on the desktop or so. |
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