On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:05:27 +0000, Sebastian Stein wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:58:47 GMT, Menno Duursma <menno@desktop.lan> wrote:

>> I think you need to compile Samba feeding: "--with-smbmount" to
>> "configure",

Yup.

> which Slackware defaults to _not_ do.

I looked at the buildscript and this is bullshit...
How come i though that, i have no idee. Maybe i ment "--with-automount"
which wasn't included with samba-2.2.8a but *is* with samba-3.0.2a idunno.

> I don't think this is needed,

It is needed, but the Slackware packages (for both 9.1 and -current)
also set it default.

> because I use the slackware samba package and
> can do smbmount without recompiling.

Thanks for correcting me. I see the 3.x package is compiled with ACL
support as well, kewl. IMO the only thing still left missing with in the
3.0.2a package are libnss_wins.so and libnss_winbind.so ! (Is that a bug?)

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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:30:12 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:
> Sebastian Stein wrote:

>> Put the home directories on a central server and mount this filesystem
>> during startup on the clients. A very easy way would be to just have a
>> central samba server with the directories and then mount them at startup
>> with smb mount.
>
> AFAIK the samba file system does not support unix-like permissions and
> ownerships,

That is correct (at least, on the machines i used it).

But those would only be needed should you run some kind of shell server
(or other setup, where user/group perms are usefull). And in the NT way of
doing things you'd use ACLs instead:

http://www.bluelightning.org/linux/samba_acl_howto/
http://networking.earthweb.com/netsy...0954_3077971_1

The samba 3x package from -current is compiled with support ...
The 2.6.x kernel supports it, and 2.4.x can be patched for it:

http://acl.bestbits.at/

> so you may not want to do it this way.

The way i understand this setup, it looks like a NT network. Only the
server is Linux and some (but not all) of the clients are Linux as well.

Now, the most nice way i see one could go about it, is to make the Linux
clients act like NT as well. That can (accouding to the docs) be done using
some createive setup for: smb.conf, fstab, and nsswitch.conf.

man winbindd

But you'll need "libnss_winbind.so" installed then (i hope not PAM...):
http://www.google.nl/groups?selm=pan...0deskt op.lan

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