On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 03:59, Douglas Furlong wrote: > I have not been following this thread TOO closely, as it got far to > wordy far to quickly.. > > I am running a combined windows/linux network at my office, where some > of the linux users have to access the SMB shares (as it's easier to do > that then set up NFS clients on the windows machines). > > I was faced with the same problem that you have and found a nice little > utility called pam_mount. > > It has two config files, global (for the box) and local (for the > individual). You can set up all the mount points you may desire (not > limited to smb). The username/password is obtained at the time the user > log's in to the machine (either at the console or via GDM). > > No username/passwords need to be stored any where on the local machine. > > Not as nice as "Network Neighbourhood" in windows, but a hell of a lot > better then then the GNOME solution :( > > Doug Thanks for the tip and description. I took a look at the site, bookmarked it and downloaded the source RPM for FC1. It looks like the best solution for effortless mounting of shares while still preserving user security. I will install it a little later on in the week. Looking forward to this! :0) Thanks again, Paul
