I recently installed Linux Mint 9 on a computer for my wife. I also installed Likewise Open & it all seems to be working fine as near as I can tell. I can log in as her using the DOMAIN\username at the login window, but I am wanting to go a step further.

She was previously on a Windows 2000 machine & I have been using roaming profiles with the Profiles & Home drives located on the 2K3 server with an AD domain. The 2 drives she accesses are her Home Drive & a shared drive between us. The Windows pathes are below:
* Home: \\SERVER\HOME$\ABC-123
* Shared: \\SERVER\HOME$\shared
* Profiles: \\SERVER\PROFILES$\ABC-123 & \\SERVER\PROFILES$\shared

What I would like to do is her connect to her home drive & the Shared drive. Eventually I would like her profile on the server with common items between Windows, Mac & Linux (i.e. Thunderbird profiles, Firefox Profiles, etc.)…although this is not core right now.

My questions are:
* How do I successfully map those drives for her so they will appear on login (preferably with names like Home & Shared? (Similar to the function served by a Windows batch file at login)
* How do I make it so she will not need the DOMAIN\ before her username?
* She has a netbook as well & I wonder if there is a way that she can:
– Connect it to the domain as well?
– Same login scheme as the desktop?
– Profile does not need to be copied
– Sync data on server Home to local home on netbook for access when traveling & sync back upon login back to domain.

I have scoured some sources on teh net & asked some other Linux folk, but I have either not explained it right or they misunderstood, because the answer has not been clear enough.

Any help anyone can offer would be excellent!

thanks for this. Worked like a treat in joining to the domain but now I can’t access as root, I can only access as my domain account which has no authority to do anything on the box. If I try accessing as my original user account I get an authentication failure. I can’t sudo under my domain account and obviously can’t modify sudoers.

Any advice?

I’m running Likewise 6 and Linux Mint 9.

Thanks for that – I’ve updated the post with a link to your hint.

Cheers!

You can specify usernames in the form user@domain (so tso940@domain in your example) – that might work?

Failing that, try just specifying the UID (again, in your case 1115247694).

We don’t usually configure users with more than 8 characters for application compatibility but I’ve changed my AIX 5.3 system to accept a 20 character user and although this works ok:

root@utajona2:/ # id domain\\tso940
uid=1115247694(domain\tso940) gid=1115161089(domain\domain^users) groups=1115243261(domain\cs-gpounrestricteduser),1115317722(domain\jlbrallowedrodcpasswordreplicationgroup),1115294180(domain\wrbrallowedrodcpasswordreplicationgroup),1115161766(domain\g_gpo-s-u^unres)

when I run the command to add my domain user to the local ldap group again, I get another (different) error:

root@utajona2:/ # usermod -G domain\\domain^users,domain\\cs-gpounrestricteduser,domain\\jlbrallowedrodcpasswordreplicationgroup,domain\\wrbrallowedrodcpasswordreplicationgroup,domain\\g_gpo-s-u^unres,ldap domain\\tso940

3004-687 User “domaintso940″ does not exist.

Something malformed there…

Jon

I’m not sure on the limit these days under Linux – a quick Google suggests at least 32 characters is fine.

This page seems to suggest that the limit in AIX was 8 character up until one of the 5.x releases, but it’s now 255 characters…

that’s pretty clearly working for you…my problem (and it could well be AIX) is that when I try to run this:-

root@utajona2:/ # usermod -G domain\\domain^users,domain\\cs-gpounrestricteduser,domain\\jlbrallowedrodcpasswordreplicationgroup,ldap domain\\username

I get the error:

3004-691 Error changing “domainusername” : Name is too long.

What’s the max username length in the version of Linux you were using above? In AIX it’s 8 so that could be the limit I’m hitting with this.

Cheers

Jon