Re: Help me replace some Windows installations
From: ZnU (znu_at_acedsl.com)
Date: 09/13/04
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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:05:28 -0400
In article <3v3f12-j7p.ln1@triangulo.it.uc3m.es>,
ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es (P.T. Breuer) wrote:
> ZnU <znu@acedsl.com> wrote:
> > I thought SMB permissions were based on who mounted the share? How could
>
> Correct - i.e. access is per user, not per machine (as in NFS).
>
> > I then mount the share with a system-wide process but still arrange for
>
> You tell the "system-wide process" which user and password to use. Or
> you tell the other end to accept anyone. Etc.
But that process only runs once at startup, and I'd need to use
different login information for each user.
> > the logged in user to have appropriate access to his/her home directory?
> > OS X and Windows solve this problem by mounting the share using each
> > specific user's account information when that user logs in.
>
> Then go ahead and do the same. Hic. You can use a specific user
> application to gain access instead of mounting it.
I'm not sure what you mean here. You mean I could have a user process
execute at login to mount the user's home directory with the proper
permissions? Something like that would be ideal.
> > Do I have to use NFS to make this all work? I'd rather not have to deal
>
> NFS is NFS, not SMB. You are talking about SMB.
Right, but I'm asking if I have to use NFS rather than SMB to solve the
permissions issues.
> > with all of the security implications there.
>
> Like what? (Yes, I know how to use NFS to advantage).
I'm not terribly familiar with NFS. But if I just mount the whole /Users
hierarchy from the OS X server on the Linux machines via NFS, don't I
have to trust the client machines to enforce permissions on it?
> > Also, what about the authentication situation? Will Fedora authenticate
> > against OS X's OpenDirectory if I just fill in the appropriate fields in
> > the 'Authentication' GUI utility?
>
> Pass, since I have no idea what an OpenDirectory is, apart from that
> gleaned from your sentence (i.e. that it ias authentication mechanism
> present in apple mac's recent systems).
OpenDirectory is basically OpenLDAP with an Apple schema that provides
everything OS X needs. I *think* this schema is a superset of RFC 2307
(which is what I'd want for Linux clients, right?), but it's hard to
find documentation for this sort of thing. I was hoping someone here had
done this and could tell me.
I've managed to Google up lots of information about using a Linux server
with OS X clients, but I've found practically nothing about doing things
the other way around.
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