Re: [SLUG] Need command to mount linux drives onto NT clients during NT logon

From: John Clay (john.clay@lfr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 10:57:11 EDT


This works exactly as you describe Ian. Pilot Error on my part.

Thanks.

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 17:26, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2003 15:10, John Clay wrote:
> > I need for my NT client logon.bat file to mount (map) a linux drive for
> > each Windows user at logon. I've tried the net use command like so:
> >
> > net use S: \\MARIGOLD\home\testdir /y
>
> I don't believe you can map a drive letter to a subdirectory of a mountpoint,
> just the mountpoint itself (unless you're using Microsoft's DFS stuff):
>
> If you're logged into your Windows account with the same username/password set
> on the SAMBA side, you can simply do:
>
> net use S: \\MARIGOLD\home
>
> If you need to use a different username on the SAMBA side, you can insert
> "yourusername" as follows:
>
> net use S: \\MARIGOLD\home /user:yourusername
>
> If you want the drive mapping to persist between reboots, you will want to set
> this flag as well:
>
> net use S: \\MARIGOLD\home /user:yourusername /persistent:yes
>
> and you can delete the drive letter mapping with:
>
> net use S: /d
>
> Also, never forget "nbtstat", it's a useful command for finding machines on
> your network and troubleshooting NetBIOS naming issues:
>
> nbtstat -A 192.168.1.2
> nbstat -a MARIGOLD
>
> > Where MARIGOLD is a linux samba box with the share /home/testdir. I can
> > browse MARIGOLD and get to /home/testdir via Windows Explorer.
> >
> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Try not to map to a directory below a share and see if that helps. Only via
> Microsoft's DFS can you do freaky things like this - and you're on your own
> in this case (I've really bare touched DFS, and never with SAMBA/SAMBA-TNG).



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