as part of a project I need to mount individual cifs-directories from a Samba DC on the home directory of individual users. The login-process authenticates against an OpenLDAP via SSSD and the mount is handled by pam_mount.
While the authentication and mount at first works fine, the file manager (GUI) freezes upon opening and stops the proccess subsequently. It then opens it later on (after 10+ Minutes) but many of the home folders (Documents, Downloads etc.) are not accessible.
If you look at it now within the terminal, the samba-share is mounted and you can access the /home-directory of the user and all files perfectly fine (also including read/write permissions and correct IDs from the LDAP).
My pam_mount.conf.xml configuration is as follows:
volume fstype="cifs" server="placeholder" path="HOME/%(USER)" mountpoint="/home/%(USER)" options = "workgroup=placeholder" />
I also tried out several other options but none worked for me.
Is this a known problem? Does anybody have an idea how to fix this or is Ubuntu intentionally designed to not allow mounts on home-directories?
PS: I am not a native english speaker, so I apologize in advance for weird phrasing/spelling.
