[pptp-server] auto-login mount

[Jason Staudenmayer]

I though of using the automounter but It would hold open a connection to
novell server
and we (my employer) limit the number of concurrent logins to Novell.
I'm looking for someway of mounting after a pptp connection is made without
user
intervention.

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Clark [mailto:allanc at caldera.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:18 AM
To: Jason Staudenmayer
Cc: 'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] auto-login mount


Jason;

Did you consider using the standard automounter?

I'm more a Unix than Linux guy, so I'm not sure the capabilities of the
linux automounter, but the Unix one would allow home directories with
/home/atlas/jfranklin (ie /home is the mount, "atlas" is one of many
"servers" for mounting, and "jfranklin" is a username) result in an
automount of atlas, and a softlink of the home directory.  

I'm going from memory here, since I've only got OpenServers up at the
time (which have a different automounter).  Does htis seem like
something to play with?

If the user is using a Windows client, Samba can handle the mounts with
pre/post commands; I was using this to make a mount of //host/CDROM do a
"mount -t iso9660 ..." and a umount as required.

Allan


Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to have a script run a mount/umount command for a user
when
> he/she connects/disconnects
> to the pptp? The situation is I need to mount a Novell server for each
> user's home directory.
> That's all setup and ready I just can't figure out how to mount/umount
each
> one by connection.
> I tries using the ip-up script but the directory perms are changed so that
> only root can see it.
> I would like something like the following:
> 
> if %username% = john
>         ncpmount -U john -P secret -S server -V vol /home/john/mountdir
> elseif %username% = jay
>         etc.....
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> Jason S
> 
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