Topic: E-Smith and Mandrake 9.0

[Ashley]

I would like to setup a network with E-Smith 5.5 as the server/gateway/DHCP and about 4 mandrake 9.0 clients.  

I would like to be able to use one userid and password and be able to map I-bays and users home directory.  

I assume samba would be the way to go.  Could anyone help please?

kind regards,

Ashley

[Bob Todd]

Samba ? Samba is used to hook-up Windows clients - so thats not going to be the best way forward. Maybe someone in here who uses linux clients can advise on their setup. I only use Windoze clients on my network so far.

[schotty]

Very easy.

Lookup FSTAB on the internet or man fstab (man mount wont kill you either )

If you make changes to the etc/fstab (datei responsible for the mounting of drives) then when the clients start they will automaticaly mount the drives from sme server (as long as you have made the changes to etc/fstab)

Basicaly to mount a network drive the command is :

mount -t smbfs -o username=NAME //SMESERVERNAME/SHARENAME /MOUNTPOINT

You will then be asked for the password of USERNAME. If you enter the correct password then /MOUNTPOINT will know be mapped to a directory on the SME Server.



cheers


schotty

[Michael Soulier]

Ashley wrote:
>
> I would like to setup a network with E-Smith 5.5 as the
> server/gateway/DHCP and about 4 mandrake 9.0 clients.
>
> I would like to be able to use one userid and password and be
> able to map I-bays and users home directory.

It's not clear what you mean by one userid and password. Do you mean that you want to create a single user on the server and have it available on the linux client boxes? If so, samba would not be the best way to go about authenticating that user on all your client machines.

The simplest is probably to use NIS. This aging howto

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/nis-howto.html

can still be mostly followed for 5.5 or 5.6, changing versions as appropriate.

Cheers,
mps