Duncan Collins wrote: > Rob, > > I am usually a silent member of this list. > However this is very close to what I am trying to do, > to set up a work client for an otherwise Windows network. > I have had some success in using Sabayon to do some of what you mention > > Install Sabayon > System Administration - User profile editor > Add a profile > Create Icons, change settings etc > Set profile for all users. > I'm not sure this includes proxy server settings ( I could also do > with knowing how to do this for all users ) > Unfortunately I did some of this and it worked, I then went back in > and it kept crashing when saving changes. > > Also with the other issue I'm struggling with I managed to corrupt my > sudoers file on my test virtual machine, so have had to go back to a > backup and am still redoing things > > The other issue is I want to map windows network drives when a user > logs in, probably by putting a script in /etc/profile.d > > Drives are for example \\server\users\username > or \\server\data > so I need to run comands like > > sudo mount -t cifs -o > user=collind,domain=windowsdomain,password=password //server/data gdrive. > > The problem is the sudo, as the windows domain user will not be a sudoer > Hence my unsuccesful attemps so far at enabling /bin/mount for all > users in the sudoers file. > > Been trying with > user ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/mount, /bin/umount > > I am using 8.04.1 and Likewise > > I see you posted this a while back, so hopefully you have had some > success now, I'de be interested in hearing your findings > and other words of wisdom anybody else has. > > Regards > > Duncan > Hmm interesting. I haven't actually got that far yet. Once of my issues is authenticating against the server. I did try Likewise but it didn't work very well (I've been using a couple of VM's, one running SME Server 7.3 which provides a Samba 3 PDC and another running either Hardy or Intrepid). I've also tried LDAP with no luck. Just can't seem to find a howto which explains how to do it properly. There's lots of information out there, none of it however seems to do the job. :-(
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