[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps?

[Tom Weissmann]

Chris Jones wrote:

> To automount the share you'd potentially have to supply auth details for
> every protected share on your network, which doesn't necessarily seem wise.

I don't see why this has to be necessary. The user provides the auth 
details for the shares he wants to access. The automounter uses them to 
try and mount the share. End of story.

The thing that would require care is stopping other users piggybacking 
on the first user's permissions.

> I'm sure there are schemes for automounting samba shares, but I've not
> seen one and I'd ban it from a company network.

If we did that at work nobody would be able to get any work done. We use 
Windows, and one of the useful things it does is automount SMB shares - 
as long as the user has the necessary permissions, of course :)

What do you think happens when you access a UNC path in Windows, like 
\\users\me\photos?

Roll on the FUSE tools.
Tom SW
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