I'm looking for a way to mount a windows share on a linux box in such a way that when the linux users write data to the mount point, I can (this might be a stretch) map their unix ID to their windows ID for permissions purposes.
I'm aware of using mount.cifs, however, I would have to mount the drive as a particular domain user (a user who has access to the shared NTFS/CIFS folder), however, when linux users modify/write data to the mounted drive, they are accessing the shared deveice as if they were the windows user that mounted the drive. NFS would be a good alternative here, however, I don't have an NFS server running on the windows box that is hosting the share.
Any suggestions? Can a Samba client be brought into the picture? I could automount the drive with the linux user's windows credentials when they login (each linux user has a windows domain account as well), however, I still have to mount the windows drive somewhere at the root level for a web server to be able to access the data, cron scripts to write data to it, etc. I do not want to mount that drive as my own windows domain account or a system admin domain account.
