[COLUG] ActiveDirectory integration: home directories

[Scott Merrill]

Scott Merrill wrote:
> Brian Miller wrote:
>> I was going to suggest something along the same lines.  One of the options  
>> for Services for Unix is a map file that maps Windows users to UID numbers 
>> for UNIX.  If you want users to be able to write, this mapping must be set 
>> up.  I never messed with it much, since we were only try to export CD's from 
>> Windows systems to UNIX servers (the old anonymous access works great for 
>> read-only permissions).  But the option to set it up is somewhere within the 
>> Services for UNIX MMC plugin.
> 
> Ah, that's a helpful lead. Thanks!
> 
>>From the link I shared in my last reply, I learned that I needed to
> install the "Server for NIS" component.  It's not really used, except to
> assign Unix UIDs to those users who I want to be able to use Unix
> machines in the domain.

I have created the NIS maps, adding my user account to the "Linux Users"
group.  I added my "merrill" account as an NIS member, as described in
the help for Server for NIS.

[root at rhel ~]# getent group | grep linux
Linux Users:x:10000:merrill,linuxldap
[root at rhel ~]# getent passwd merrill
merrill:x:10000:10000:Scott Merrill:/home/merrill:/bin/bash

I mounted the NFS share using root, then I used `su - merrill` to switch
to my Active Directory account.  I _still_ cannot list the contents of
the mounted share.

Thanks for the tips, I'm getting closer to solving this.  If you have
any other suggestions, please don't hold back!

-- 
skippy at skippy.net | http://skippy.net/

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 9CFA4B35
506C F8BB 17AE 8A05 0B49  3544 476A 7DEC 9CFA 4B35