Topic: How to log a mandriva workstation on a SME7 box ?

[Stiven]

Hi,

I'am searching for quite a long time - but unsuccessfully - how to log a mandriva workstation on a SME7 box.

Does anyone know if a howto exists and if it does, where can I find it ?

Thanx for all in advance.

CU

Stiven.

[Stiven]

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[CharlieBrady]

I'am searching for quite a long time - but unsuccessfully - how to log a mandriva workstation on a SME7 box.

What exactly do you mean by "log a workstation"?

[Stiven]

Hi,

Thanx for your reply.

By "log a workstation" I mean authenticate a mandriva workstation on my SME box and let the domain users reach their home directory easily and so from any worstation on the network.

Hope having been clear

Thanx in advance.

[CharlieBrady]

By "log a workstation" I mean authenticate a mandriva workstation on my SME box and let the domain users reach their home directory easily and so from any worstation on the network.

That would be a question for a Mandriva forum, I would think. The Mandriva workstation would need to do whatever it needs to do to log onto a Windows domain controller and file server.

SME server has no specific support for linux clients. In particular, it doesn't allow for LDAP or NIS authentication, or for NFS export of any filesystems.

[Stiven]

Thanx

I'll try this way.

Bye.

[AusMounty]

The easiest way I have found is to use Lin-Neighborhood application. Set this up in the Kcron to automatically log into the samba services on the SME box. That way all your users have to do is navigate to mnt folder in their home directory and they treat it as any other folder resource. Just point of interest is that it has to scan the share point as user. Otherwise will come up in general share points.

 

[TrevorB]

Or use the fix as discussed in a number of threads and documented under the Mepis Howto (http://wiki.contribs.org/Mepis) on the wiki.

This is where SME doesn't support linux clients as well as windows, so... logon to your SME Server

ClientName is the NetBIOS Name, NOTE: you must add the trailing $
Workgroup should be your SME Server Workgroup

signal-event machine-account-create ClientName$
smbpasswd -a -m ClientName$

Now back to your linux box and join the workgroup/domain

net rpc join -D WorkGroup -U admin

But if you have already tried to connect your linux workstation to the smeserver you will probably already have created the machine-account (ClientName).
In this case you wont need to do the machine-account-create