Trying to set up a Slackware workstation and need each user to be able to access their home directory on a Windows server. Only problem is that when I try to do that I get "only root can do that".

I know that yall will need some other information, but not sure what you will need so just ask and I'll comply if possible.

I can print to any shared printer, can ping all nodes on the network.

TIA,
MMYoung

Must the user be able to mount it?

Or do you just want the user to be able to access it after root has mountet it?

There may be more than one user using the same PC so I was hoping that there was something that I could do in the .bash_profile (?) or something similar. This way ONLY the logged in user would "see" their home directory.

If only one user logged onto the PC I could just set it up in fstab to mount when the PC booted, but was hoping to do it per user. If that is possible.

Thanks,
MMYoung

I think i understand what your getting at, and what todo. Here is my suggestion. You could create a file /etc/profile.d/local.sh. Here the file will get executed every time some one logs on the system (it gets called by /etc/profile and the .sh is important). To my understanding when these files (/etc/profile.d/*.sh) are executed, the are executed by root. So you would do some type of user checking `whoami` and mount the appropriate directory based one the according user. Let me show you what I mean.

I hope this helps, and good luck

-tank

Sorry for not responding sooner but I've been racking my "search finger" trying to come up with a way to do what this feller wants done but 1.) I'm ether looking in the wrong place or 2.) it can't be done. Here is what I've done so far:

I got everything working the way that I thought the dude wanted it to work. The first thing the netadmin had to do was to actually SHARE the user folder on the server. As I stated, right now the folders aren't shared but are mapped to the user when they log on, by an Active Directory thingy.

In fstab I put the following:
/server/share /home/user/Desktop/USer smbfs noauto,credentials=/home/user/.smbcred,uid=user,gid=users 0 0

Created the /home/user/Desktop/USer folder.

Created a /etc/profile.d/local.sh script.

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/profile.d/local.sh
Case `whoami` in
user)
sudo mount /home/user/Desktop/USer
;;
anotheruser)
sudo mount /home/anotheruser/Desktop/ANotheruser
;;
*)
echo "unkown user" >&2
;;
esac

Edited the sudousers file to include
user ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mount /home/user/Desktop/USer, /bin/umount /home/user/Desktop/USer

My assumption is that I would have to edit the sudousers file to include EVERY user that logs on to that PC and to include them in the local.sh file above.

Now when the user logs on his/her folder on the network is mounted automagically, they have a folder on their desktop and have read/write access to that folder. I got Evolution to access my mail folder on their Exchange server so that the user could use Evolution just like they use Outlook. (I didn't have any meetings to go to so I wasn't able to check out that fuction of Evolution just yet).

I showed netadmin what I had done with the help of a few friends (thanks to everyone who has helped me with this!) and he was impressed. Then he asked about how this could be replicated througout the office. I said that each PC would have to be set up, individually. He said, "Well, that's great BUT... it's too much like the old Windows 95 stuff." What he wants is to be able to have the same thing happen on a Linux box that happens on the Windows clients when they log in, without having to go to "each PC and do this manually and without having to share their folders, can you do that?" I had to reply, honestly, that I didn't know.

Is there a way to set samba/linux client to use a logon script from an AD server the same way that a Windows client does when logging onto the network?

I know you can do it the other way around, have a Windows client run a logon script on a samba/linux server but haven't found a way to go from linux to Active Directory.

Any suggestions?

TIA,
MMYoung