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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