Probably my fault for not following the thread closely and jumping in. As
for mounting on the desktop there is no advantage, users just seem to like
it that way.  When you say sys based authentication, I have to ask what
method you currently use?  I just never heard of a secure method where the
UID on the client machine had to match the UID on the server machine.
Either there is a login (handled a myriad of different ways) or the server
handles all authentication, including to the client.  What method are you
using and how do you keep other people from authenticating? 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alex
Dean
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:04 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: need help with NFS and user authentication

The volume is mounted with automount.  I never enter credentials of any kind
currently, since I'm using sys authentication, which is based only on user
ids.  I was curious about how to change that situation, but this is working
at the moment.

What would I gain by having the share mounted on my desktop as opposed to
anywhere else?  I guess I don't follow that part of your question.

On Mar 1, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:

> Not to seem like the lazy admin I am, but why not just put a drive 
> shortcut on your desktop, or write a bash script in the profile to 
> auto mount the NFS server? Or are you looking for a way to use single 
> sign on under LDAP/KRB so your not prompted for your keychain password 
> when first using the shared drive?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of 
> Alex Dean
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:21 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: need help with NFS and user authentication
>
> I have set up an Ubuntu file server on my home network.  I have 2 OSX 
> workstations (mine and my wife's), and an Ubuntu laptop.  We each have 
> an account on each computer.  I'm trying to figure out how to allow my 
> user account on any computer to mount my home directory on the file 
> server, and to allow my wife's account on any computer mount her home 
> directory on the file server.
>
> I don't want to move our home directories entirely onto the 
> fileserver.
> Primarily we want to continue using the local machines as we always 
> have.
> We just want to add the ability to easily store files on the network 
> and have them accessible from any other machine.
>
> I have had no problems creating exports on the file server, and I've 
> had no problems mounting those exports from the client machines.  The 
> problems thusfar have been uid mismatches.  I could probably change 
> uids everywhere so they all match on all machines, but this seems 1.
> klunky and 2. really insecure.
>
> I think there are ways to solve this kind of problem with Kerberos or 
> LDAP, but those are technologies I know very little about.  If someone 
> could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.  How 
> would you solve this problem?  I'm happy to research and learn what I 
> need to learn, but I find I'm having a hard time even getting started.
>
> thanks,
> alex
>
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