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leeanator   11-02-2002 at 05:53:12 AM

Hi!

I have a question about Suse Linux Professional 8.1 and Roaming Profiles. The profiles are being server via Windows 2000 Server SP3. Can Suse Linux Professional Support Roaming Profiles.

Do i need aditional software for the servers?

If anyone can help that would be great.

Thanx :)

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poorboy   11-03-2002 at 02:05:24 PM
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If you are cunning, you could make this work with smbclient and smbmount, and some scripting.

Basically, I think you'd need to create and mount /home/leeanator to whereever the server says %HOME% is (say \\SERVER\PROFILES\LEEANATOR or something), and unmount and delete when logging off. You could possibly set homedir in /etc/passwd to be %HOME%, but I'm not sure how you would get authentication working... maybe something can be done with PAM? You could write a special login program, that authenticates and mounts %HOME% pretty easily.

Disclaimer - I haven't actually tried it, but can't see a good reason it can't be done.


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