> i want to connect to the domain how can i do it i have win2k domain and > i use fedora and i am domain user use system-config-authentication and input your domain-settings in smb and winbind, this works fine. if you need to mount a win-share do: - create a directory for the mount in your homedir, eg. windoze - in your homedir, create a file called .smb (the dot makes it invisible) -> don't do this as root - set 'chmod 600 .smb' - content of .smb (vi .smb): username=[your windoze-username] password=[your windoze-password] give your users rights to mount shares using visudo. you will find some somples for this, doing visudo as root. afterwards, you can handle this by shell-script or in the shell (the shell-scripts contains the line, it's easier to call 'winsetup' rather than always that line: content of "winsetup" sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/$HOME/.smb,rw,uid=$UID //server/share /home/$USER/windoze remember, if using a shellscript: -chmod 700 or 770 your shellscript, otherwise it is not executable -if you don't copy your script to a path in your $PATH (echo $PATH), you will have to launch your app with the full path. so, placing it in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin/ is not a bad idea. HTH Roger
