Mounting options

[yuser at hi.net]

At 12:12 PM 1/21/02 -0800, you wrote:
>have you tried using sudo?
>
>'man sudo' and 'man sudoers' give much more detail on configuring
>sudo.  good luck!
>
Thank you.  I did not think of that option.

I believe I found a way that works to my liking without using smbmount.  I
have two Linux machines as servers,  one is mostly for Samba, another is
Apache and Squid, both headless.  The rest of the machines are Windows and
Linux clients.  I manually changed the users UID's and GID's to match the
users across all of the Linux machines (a story in itself but I found some
scripts to make it a lot easier).  This was the issue I had with the
permissions not working as expected in my first mail.   Then I merged the
different home directories from all the machines on to the Samba
machine.  Exported this and mounted it on all the remote machines.  Now a
users have only one home directory  (is there any gotchas or
watch-out-fors with this?). For the non home directory shares I used
automount and now that the UID and GID's match all works as expected.  I
assume there are tools for multiple machines and maintaining UID/GID but I
was stickly doing this to learn.
Had I though about this before ever setting up a second machine, too late
now.

I now have several Linux clients with RH7.1 P200/64MB's.  I have no issues
with speed at all.  They integrate and work exactly like the Win clients
that have roaming profiles.  I can share my IE bookmarks with Opera on
Linux, the My Documents folder with Abiword, my printers on a Jetdirect
box, even installed my true-type fonts from my Windows common fonts
directory.   My next priority is getting the scroll mouse and my USB
smartcard reader to work.  I have found references to each, just haven't
worked on it yet.

My Samba box supplying the NFS mounts and SMB mounts is an old P133/256MB
Slackware box that has been running since around 1995.  It still works and
I have no desire to change it.

Thanks for the help.
Sorry if this comes through twice..