connecting to fileserver: smb? fish? nfs? smbmount?

Hello
I want occasionally connect a linux Notebook to the LAN of our school.
The server is a linux-server with samba for all the Windows clients within
the LAN, where each user has its own systemwide account.

When you have a windows client which is not part of the domain, you are able
to access to the server simply by using the url "\\server\share". Then you
are asked for authentication.

This behaviour is exactly what I want. But I expect it from a Linux Client.
And now the things get difficult.

I can use the url: "smb://user(assword)@server/share" with konqueror or
dolphin which would be a very easy solution, but unfortunately, if I open a
document, I work only with a local copy in /var/tmp/run/.... and whether
changes are transmitted to the server depends on the application I use.
Openoffice only modifies the local copy, the original file on the server
remains unchanged :-)

The same happens when using "fish://server/path_to_directory".

So I have to mount the remote filesystem either via NFS or via
smbmount. NFS will not work (as far as I know) because of the user-ids.
(there are about 600 different users)

The only way I see is to use a script which asks the user for authentication
data and then smb-mounts //server/.

Are there other ways?

Uwe Bosse <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:i8ihq5$8rg$03$(E-Mail Removed)-
online.com:

> So I have to mount the remote filesystem either via NFS or via
> smbmount. NFS will not work (as far as I know) because of the user-ids.
> (there are about 600 different users)

Why do you think NFS won't work? I didn't know there was a limit on the
number of users in NFS. I regularly work with systems having ~200 NFS
users.

Maybe I misunderstand your issue....

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Rahul

Rahul <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:Xns9E09AC712FDD16650A1FC0D7811DDBC81@85.214.7 3.210:

>> So I have to mount the remote filesystem either via NFS or via
>> smbmount. NFS will not work (as far as I know) because of the user-ids.
>> (there are about 600 different users)
>
> Why do you think NFS won't work? I didn't know there was a limit on the
> number of users in NFS. I regularly work with systems having ~200 NFS
> users.
>
> Maybe I misunderstand your issue....
>
>

Ok, I think I understand what you meant now. The uid, gid matching problem.

On our site we have LDAP to keep all those in sync on all machines so NFS
works fine. Not your setup I guess...

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Rahul

Rahul wrote:

> Rahul <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:Xns9E09AC712FDD16650A1FC0D7811DDBC81@85.214.7 3.210:
>
>>> So I have to mount the remote filesystem either via NFS or via
>>> smbmount. NFS will not work (as far as I know) because of the user-ids.
>>> (there are about 600 different users)
>>
>> Why do you think NFS won't work? I didn't know there was a limit on the
>> number of users in NFS. I regularly work with systems having ~200 NFS
>> users.
>>
>> Maybe I misunderstand your issue....
>>
>>
>
> Ok, I think I understand what you meant now. The uid, gid matching
> problem.
>
> On our site we have LDAP to keep all those in sync on all machines so NFS
> works fine. Not your setup I guess...
>
Yes, the uids are the problem.
On the notebooks I want to have a user "pupil" with restricted rights.
But this user should be able to log in to the server as the user whose
password he knows and read and writes the files in a transparent manner, as
though they were located on the local machine.

Perhaps I will succeed with a temporary smbmount.