Re: storage server howto?
This is likely not the solution you are looking for, but it is the way I
mount smb shares on my linux workstations. I put the credentials in roots
directory, readable only by root. Then, in fstab, I give it the additional
parameters uid and gid. Following is one entry.
Works just fine. On bootup, I have the all of my shares available. I
actually mount public shares in /mnt/mainserver,then do a symlink to each
users home directories.
//tully/data /mnt/mainserver/data smbfs
gid=users,user,uid=rodo,credentials=/root/rodoserverlogin 0 0
The only problem with the above is that all files in the public shares are
"owned" by the one user. I did play some and tried to get it where it
would be owned by the individual user, but had problems doing that. I
think it could be accomplished with the .bash_profile in each users
directory, but since there are few users here and ownership was not that
much of an issue, I did not pursue it further.
For individual users private shares, I mount them into the users home
directory, using the gid and uid for that user.
//tully/rodo /home/users/rodo/server smbfs
user,credentials=/root/rodoserverlogin,gid=100,uid=1001 0 0
>
> We want to create a debain based storage server and mount /var/www/
> /home and other directories from it onto other servers and workstations.
>
> Right now we're looking at smaba, autofs, amd, smbfs. We've heard bad
> things about NFS security, but maybe we haven't looked at it close enough.
>
> What is the best way to run a storage server and mount its shares on
> other machines?
>
> Has anyone else out there had any success in using autofs or amd
> in combination with smbmount to do this?
>
> Is autofs or amd even necessary (network mount can be added as type smbfs
> in fstab)?
>
> We've looked at:
>
> Automount mini-Howto
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html
>
> Autofs Automounter HOWTO
> http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
>
> Tried:
>
> modifying /etc/fstab to mount smbfs partition -- ran into the
> username/password and permissions issues below
>
> amd package -- seems to be oriented towards using NFS, but the
> autofs autmounter howto does mention samba towards the bottom of
> section 5.3
>
> Problems:
>
> smbmount requires username and password - this seems to be
> fixable by using a file containing credentials and making it
> viewable only by the owner
>
> permissions on mounted directory - did a sample mount and the
> file permissions for home directories ended up being 755 root
> root instead of 755 user group - perhaps this problem can be
> remedied by the machines sharing the same passwd and shadow files
> (in the long run LDAP will be used)
>
>
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