[indiana-discuss] Two questions before I install OpenSolaris for "real"

[Bryan Boone]

OK...
So now I've effectively blown away the user created from the installer. 
  That is,  I had to do usermod -u [my uid]; chown my home (I eventually 
deleted it all); then cleaned up /tmp and /var/tmp from the previous 
uid.  I'm left with a less than informative prompt :( (bash-3.2$)

I know I goofed up and really went the long way around things, but live 
and learn... for now, how do I get the default command prompt like the 
installer created?

-Bryan (using BabbelFish to go from OSX-> Debian (KDE)-> OpenSolaris 
(Gnome)) ;)

Robert Thurlow wrote:
> Bryan Boone wrote:
> 
>> Just got back from CommunityOne and JavaOne and I'm chomping at the bit
>> to install OpenSolaris for real on a desktop....
>>
>> 2) Is there a way (for mere mortals) to configure the automounter to
>> automount samba/cifs mounts like it does for nfs mounts?
> 
> Yes, mostly.  See:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/820-2429/automountsharetask?a=view
> 
> The automounter accepts lines like this (for direct maps only):
> 
> % cat /etc/auto_direct
> /PUBLIC -fstype=smbfs   //solarsystem/public
> 
> The main issue is that smbfs needs to have a CIFS server user
> name and a password or its equivalent around at mount time to
> make the connection to the server.  You can arrange that by
> using Kerberos (nice, but not always convenient at home), by
> using 'smbutil login' to store a password for the share, or by
> hard-coding an account name and password in the map (ick).
> 
> In the fullness of time, the plan is to not make the TCP
> connection at mount time, but to make it when actual file I/O
> is needed, and then to have one connection per user and use
> something like dbus to prompt for a password.  It would also
> be nice to have browsing like /net gives you.
> 
> Rob T