[gentoo-server] Mount Samba shares as home

[Alexander Zimmerling]

Hi guys,

I've got a nice problem here.

My situation:

I have different clients, windows and linux and a gentoo-samba-pdc.

As you might know, windows domains are supporting a 'homeshare' which
are mounted (mapped) to a specific driveletter (here m:)

The windows boxes are domain members. The linux boxes aren't.
Some of the users need to login to windows and linux clients. The
linux-usernames are unfortunately not equal with the domain-usernames.

The generel problem is to provide the logged in linux user the
corresponding (domain-user) homeshare.

Postings in the forums pointed me to pam_mount.

I'll give you an example:

Colleague Bob Example.

Has a domain-user-login, bob.example. He can login on all windows
workstations without any trouble, the share is mapped to m: etc.

He has a linux username, also. Just "bob".

Bob is an unprivileged user and using this command ends in an error:

>>
mount.cifs //server/bob.example /home/bob -o user=bob.example
<<

error returned:
>>
mount error 1 = Operation not permitted 
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
<<


As I said the guys in the forum told me to look for pam_mount.
I installed this module, set it up in /etc/pam.d/system-auth and
configured the /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml

added this line:

>>
<volume user="bob" fstype="cifs" server="server" path="bob.example"
options="user=bob.example">
<<

I saw, that pam_mount uses $(user) to identify the user, and pass this
to mount.cifs. I've deleted this part and added
options="user=bob.example".

Well this is where I'm stucked now. 

The main problem is that the username on the old linux boxes differing
from the domain user names.

Do you have any ideas or a better documentation for pam_mount? or had
sth similar?

Kind Regards

Alex