[SOLVED] Sharing home directories -

grahamb314 · 06-15-2013, 03:55 PM

I have setup winbind to let users authenticate against our Active directory server.
This is working fine and a new /home/domain/xxx folder is created when they login (Where xxx is a username)

I want to host all the /home/domain/* folders on a NAS server so that they are central and so that all a users files are available no matter which server they logon to.

This is what I did:
Setup a NAS server and made a share
On the linux servers I mounted the new share to the /home/domain local folder like this:
mount -t nfs nasserver:/mnt/Volume1 /home/domain

I logged in one of the active directory users and they immediately get logged out, so I logged in again and at the terminal I see this:

Code:

-bash-4.1$

usually I get

Code:

username@servername$

I thought that the home folder for the user wasn't created but I found that it had been: (And it shows on the NAS server)

Code:

-bash-4.1$ ls -al /home/domain/myusername/
total 5
drwxr-xr-x. 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody  4 Jun 15  2013 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 nfsnobody nfsnobody  4 Jun 15  2013 ..
-rw-------. 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 17 Jun 15  2013 .bash_history
-rw-rw-r--. 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody  0 Jun 15  2013 .bash_profile

I'm not sure what's wrong here but nfsnobody seems suspect

for info since creating home folders for active directory users is done by by winbind, my /etc/pam.d/sshd file has this line:

Code:

session    required      pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=002

Home directories worked before I mounted to the NAS but then I had no shared home folders of course.

Does anyone know how I can get shared home folders to work correctly?

Many thanks

jebe88 · 06-17-2013, 02:28 AM

It's probably a problem with the access rights between the NAS and the Linux boxes. AFAIK the Linux box will need root access to the NFS share of the NAS because owner/group of the newly created home directory need to be changed. Try exporting the share on the NAS with option "no_root_squash" and mount it on tzhe Linux boxes with option "suid". Hope it works.