[COLUG] ActiveDirectory integration: home directories

[Dan Hill]

Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote: 
...
>The home directories for our test implementation reside on our AD
>controller.  I've shared the home folder (C:\Home) as both a CIFS share
>and an NFS share (using Windows NFS services bundled with Win2K3 R2).
>The RHEL workstation can mount the NFS share, but cannot see any of the
>contents of that share:
>[root at rhel ~]# mount fqdn.ad.example.com:/Home /mnt
>[root at rhel ~]# ls /mnt
>ls: /mnt: Permission denied
>
>The RHEL workstation can mount the CIFS share, but the permissions are
>_way_ too permissive:
>[root at rhel ~]# mount -t cifs \
>         -o credentials=/etc/samba/credentials.txt \
>         fqdn.ad.example.com:/Home /mnt
>[root at rhel ~]# ls -lha /mnt
>total 8.0K
>drwxrwxrwx   1 root root    0 Jul 27 13:26 .
>drwxr-xr-x  24 root root 4.0K Aug 18 16:00 ..
>drwxrwxrwx   1 root root    0 Aug 18 16:18 user1
>drwxrwxrwx   1 root root    0 Aug 18 16:19 user2


I saw a similar problem before, which turned out to be permission related on
the Windows Server.  Have you verified proper access from a Windows system
using same credentials?