Re: Cannot mount users's home directories

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Sunday, 6 May 2012 10:08:23 zingalo wrote:
> Hi,
> i have problems mounting on the client ubuntu the users's home
> directories that are on a server debian squeeze with ldap-samba.
> 
> First of all, which is the correct syntax for homeDirectory attribute if
> that home is on a server. I wrote:
> homeDirectory: //192.168.5.219/users/username

$ ldapsearch  -x -s base -b cn=Subschema attributetypes|perl -p0e 's/\n //g'|
grep homeDirectory
attributeTypes: ( 1.3.6.1.1.1.1.3 NAME 'homeDirectory' DESC 'The absolute path 
to the home directory' EQUALITY caseExactIA5Match SYNTAX 
1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26 SINGLE-VALUE )

Note, it does not say a URI or a <sic>Universal</sic> Naming Convention share 
name.

> but pam_mount tells me volume not found.
> 
> am not sure of samba and smbldap configurations also. could you take a
> look of my conf files?
> 
> this is smb.conf:

[...]

> [homes]
> path = /users/%u
> browseable = no
> writable = yes
> valid users = %S
> read only = no
> guest ok = no
> admin users = %u
> write list = %u
> read list = %u
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700

[...]

> and this is smbldap.conf:

[...]

> # Home directory
> # Ex: userHome="/home/%U"
> userHome="/users/%U"

[...]

Why not include your pam_mount configuration? You should be able to do 
something like:
<volume fstype="cifs" server="192.168.5.219" path="%(USER)" mountpoint="~" />

Of course, I wonder about setups where the Unix side is Unixy for everything, 
except the file sharing (hint: NFS, automount maps).

Regards,
Buchan