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Mounting Resources From NT4 Domain

I have been able to get Mandrake 10.1 Community to authenicate from my NT4 and W2K domain controllers. I am also able to browse the network and see all hte clients and servers so I know I have that part all setup right. ( Took a bit but got it) Anyways using Samba as a client and not a server can anyone tell me how to map the printers and drives from the NT profile to the linux box.
Example:
John Doe uses a NT4 roaming profile. In his NT profile he prints to //server1/printer and has drive mappings o: //server1/shared

I would also like the mapping (mount) to show up on the users desktop as a drive letter.

I want to do this with no user interaction at all when they log on with the exception of they having to authenicate at the logon prompt.

In a nutshell what I am trying to accomplish is loading the devices from the users NT Roaming profile onto the linux box.

ahoffmann

for mounting use smbmount
printers are configured in your prefered pprinting system: CUPS, lpr or lpd

> .. loading the devices from the users NT Roaming profile onto the linux box.
beside some proprietary products, AFAIK you're stuck to samba/smbclient

ecrit

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I figured that but is there a way to have samba or to pass to samba %username %passowrd of the user logging on.
like if I used the option smbclient \\ntserver\share -U|--user=LOGNAME[%password]
I would need to map 3 drives on 3 different servers at login time oblivious to the user logging in.

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ahoffmann

you also may use smbclien's -s option (man smbclient again;-)

ecrit

ASKER

Hey,
Thanks for all the help. I figured as much. I will just have to make it as easy as possiblr for the user. I can't even concider keeping any type of plain text file of the username and passwords.

Thanks again.