Mounting server directory w/YAST Win Domain Membership tool

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Hello,
I’ve configured YAST-Windows Domain Membership properly and can now login to our Windows 2003 active directory.
However, from within Yast-Windows Domain Membership, when I select “Expert Settings” and then in the “Mount Server Directories” section try to access a fileserver I have problems. Pressing the “+Add” button, I enter the following values:

    Server Name-"uaffbnksfs01"
    Remote path- "//123.45.234.21/WORK"
    Mount Point-"/home/scott/sharedDrive"
    Options-"%(DOMAIN_USER)"...this is defaulted
    User Name-"scgoldberg"

However, when I press [Okay], I get a crash in this YAST module at “Disable Samba Services”.

I have installed krb5, and pam_krb5, as well as krb5-client modules.

How does my format look in the fields above? Any suggestions?

I’ve also tried NFS-Client from within YAST and cannot see any of the directories on the fileserver, or the server itself for that matter. TIA for advice and suggestions.

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Did you get this working? Mine doesn’t crash but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

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NFS client is not going to help you. NFS client is communicating with NFS server ( = linux ). Please take some time and dive into SAMBA, that should do the job.

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Make sure nmbd and smbd are running with the following commands (as su)

nmbd status
smbd status

then go to nautilus or dolphin or whatever file browser you have and go to

smb://servername/directory

it will ask for a username and password if it works
(sorry, I forgot how to do it on the command line , it’s been a while)

if it works, add it to /etc/fstab like this:


//server/share    /mnt/dir   smbfs   username=user,password=xxx  0 0