Re: [Afpfs-ng-devel] mount point

[Alex d. <ale...@gm...>]

Here's what I understand:
- you have an LDAP server running on Mac OS X
- you have Linux clients that use that LDAP server
- you want your users to login once to the Linux machines using their
LDAP authentication, and be able to see their AFP shares

- Alex

On 3/29/07, dho...@ha...
<dho...@ha...> wrote:
> Quoting Alex deVries <ale...@gm...>:
>
> > On 3/28/07, dho...@ha...
> > <dho...@ha...> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Do I need to define a mount point in fstab?
> >
> > Actually, you can't.  Entries in /etc/fstab are mounted as root, and
> > right now an afpfsd instance is on a per-user basis.  This means that
> > if you have 10 different users logged in, there need to be 10
> > different copies of afpfsd.  afp_client will start one up if it hasn't
> > already started.  So adding it to rc.local won't really help.
> >
> > I'll change that at some point.  Mapping local to remote users is a
> > bit complicated, and there are some bugs in 0.4 in that area.
> >
> > Here's a question for you:  all afp mounts require some form of
> > authentication.  What local and remote user accounts would you use for
> > that mount?  Is it shared between users?
> >
> > Glad you like it. Tell your friends and it'll get better.
> >
> > - Alex
>
> The mount is not shared between users.  Authentication is currently
> through Apples Active Directory (Openldap) user accounts created
> through workgroup manager.  I need to make this as simple as possible
> for the user.  Right now the workstation has a generic account and a
> root account.  Should I create an account with the same info as user
> account on the apple server?
>
> --
> Dwayne Hottinger
> Network Administrator
> Harrisonburg City Public Schools
>
>