[oclug] samba mount question

[Hugh Campbell]

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:46:38 -0400, Shawn Barnes wrote:

>I have set up tlsp to enable using old computers as thinclients.
>I also have a samba server as our file server.
>
>My question....is it possible to mount the same share, from the file
>server, multiple times on one computer (the xserver/fatserver)? 
>
> I have no problem mounting a samba share once, but once user-fred has
>smbmounted a share user-bob can't also mount it..even if the share was
>mounted on a directory both have access to the share was mounted using
>fred's username and passwd.  
>

I use LTSP both at home and at work, but I have never attempted what
you are doing.  All publicly available mounts are mounted by fstab
and/or root and so are available to everyone logged in to the fat
server - do you really need to have individual users mounting things?

You probably do, and there are probably good reasons, but I would be
curious to know -  in my implementation of LTSP, it never occurred to
me to do things that way.

In answer to your question, I don't think there is an issue about
mounting things twice - I just tested my LTSP server, and have no
problem mounting the same resource twice - obviously the second one has
to go onto a different mount point though. Maybe I misunderstood what
you are doing.

Hugh