In summary, the applications that are going to enable us to authenticate with a 
Windows domain are Samba, Kerberos, and winbind.
4.2.3  File sharing using domain shares
Since the Linux clients are joining a domain and the majority of clients in the 
domain will probably still be Windows clients, the best way to share files is 
through Windows shares.
Mounting shares on a Linux client using 
smbmount
 gives the user file systems on 
the Linux client, which behave very much like any other file system. However, if 
the share is not open for everybody, a user name/password combination is 
needed, just like under Windows. When mounting a share by hand this can be 
input without problem. However, this might lead to several problems:
Manually mounting shares using the 
smbmount
 command may not be an 
acceptable practice for all users. Users are not used to having to mount 
shares manually because under Windows this is done automatically when 
logging on.
A way must be found to enable automatic mounting on login just like on 
Windows. In Linux, automatic mounting of SMB shares can be accomplished 
using entries in the /etc/fstab file.
A simple solution would be to mount shares in a logon profile. However, this 
needs a password, and the user is used to shares being mounted using the 
password supplied upon logon. 
A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) exists to enable automatic mounting 
at logon, called pam_mount. Since this module is not completely mature yet, 
care has to be taken to include this in the planning. Currently it is the only useful 
way to incorporate some sort of single sign on like under Windows.
When planning for this, extra time should be included to test the pam_mount 
module on the Linux client chosen for the project. When it works it is a very 
powerful method of mounting shares automatically.
Planning tip:
 Test and plan use of pam_mount extensively.
Home directories and shares
During planning it might be very tempting to push user home directories on Linux 
clients to Windows shares. This will enable a  thinner  client.
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