Re: [Afpfs-ng-devel] mount point

[<dho...@ha...>]

Hey,
No problem.  I knew this was cutting edge beta stuff.

Quoting Alex deVries <ale...@gm...>:

> Okay, this is what autofs is for.
>
> I'm not quite sure how this would all fit together; if you google for
> 'fuse autofs', there'll be some pointers.  Right now, afpfs-ng doesn't
> know how to handle passwords other than on the command line[*], and I
> don't know how you'd actually get it.
>
> Another simpler way to do it is to create a subdir on their home dir
> (eg. /home/user/my_apple_home), and put an afp_client mount command in
> their .bashrc.
>
> Or use SMB.  Or NFS.
>
> I'd like to figure this out, but my afpfs-ng priorities are now:
>
> For 0.5:
> - rearrange the codebase so that we can have different clients
> - write a test command-line client (eg. "afp_client get
> afp://server/dir/filename", which downloads a copy of that file
> without having to first mount it)
>
> For 0.6:
> - write a gnome-vfs2 client so that AFP volumes are represented in nautilu=
s
>
> When all this is stable, we'll ship 1.0, hopefuly by November but you
> know how it goes.
>
> Patches accepted.
>
> - Alex
>
> [*] I realize that this is incovenient, and I have a patch that asks
> the user for their passwd if one isn't provided.
>
>
> On 3/29/07, dho...@ha...
> <dho...@ha...> wrote:
>> Quoting Alex deVries <ale...@gm...>:
>>
>>> So you want their home directories on Linux to be mounted from your
>> Xserver?
>>>
>>> - A
>>>
>>> On 3/29/07, dho...@ha...
>>> <dho...@ha...> wrote:
>>>> Quoting Alex deVries <ale...@gm...>:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's what I understand:
>>>>> - you have an LDAP server running on Mac OS X
>>>>
>>>> No.  Sorry for the confusion.  I have an Apple X server 10.4.x server
>>>> running Open Directory storing user accounts in Ldap (Apple uses
>>>> Openldap).
>>>>
>>>>> - you have Linux clients that use that LDAP server
>>>> I want to have linux clients connect to the ldap server and mount
>>>> their 'homes'
>>>>> - you want your users to login once to the Linux machines using their
>>>>> LDAP authentication, and be able to see their AFP shares
>>>> yes, I want users to login once with their apple usernames and
>>>> passwords and see their AFP shares.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dwayne Hottinger
>>>> Network Administrator
>>>> Harrisonburg City Public Schools
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dwayne Hottinger
>> Network Administrator
>> Harrisonburg City Public Schools
>>
>>



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Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools