Topic: Looking for answers to basic questions:

[cjsstables]

Hello-
I have sme7.3 set up as domain controller.  I have multiple client types. ie winxp, linux (debian), and Mac OSx clients.  I have been successful in joining the domain with both winXP clients and Debian Linux clients (i follwed wiki.contribs.org/Mepis) to get the deb clients to join.  I haven't tried MacOSx yet.

When I log onto the domain with the linux client, I get two folders on the desktop 1.) ernie's home  and 2.) ernie.   I have no clue as to the relationship that these two folders have with each other nor how they relate to the sme-server (where they actually resideat) or how they show up when logged in with an xp client.   The only thing I can see is that the folder ernie resides within /ernie's home/Desktop/.  Can someone explain this relationship?

When I log onto the domain with a winXP client and user ernie, I get a automounted network drive called ernie on z: but the filesthat I created with the linux client/ernie are not on the z: drive as I expected them to be.

If I am logged onto the domain with a linux client I'm assuming that if I save a file in the folder ernie, then I log off and log onto the domain with an XP client with user ernie, that same file should be available somewhere , but I don't know where to locate it at. 

I know these are basically newbie questions, but I have found no documentation describing these types of sharing relationships between the different types of clients.  That is why I am asking here on the forum.

I'd surely appreciate it if someone can explain this to me or where to find the documentation explaining this.

[stephen noble]

windows uses netlogon
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter7#Setting_up_network_drives

check the mepis howto again, this is where it mounts shares
http://wiki.contribs.org/Mepis#Mounting_Shares

ernie should be an existing ibay
reread the manual about ibay usage chapter 14

[mercyh]

cjsstables,

How have you proceeded with your project. I am researching going to a mixed shop of Linux and Windows clients. Possibly with the clients based on either Ubuntu or Fedora 8. (I will have to stay with Windows and MsOffice on some of my machines as some users use some heavily VBA modified MS office files.) One of the things I would need is a map on windows and a mount on Linux that would always point to the same user home. According to the little I have read each user would have to have an Ibay for themselves to mount the Linux share. Netlogon could be modified to map this as the user share but it gets a bit time consuming to have to build a new IBAY every time a new user is created.

It seems like the easiest way to achieve this is to point Netlogon at the Linux mountpoint as apposed to trying to get Linux to mount the Windows location.

Anybody doing this and how?