# Mapping AD Authenticated Windows Shares on Login
**URL:** https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/mapping-ad-authenticated-windows-shares-on-login/11088
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support
**Created:** [August 21, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/mapping-ad-authenticated-windows-shares-on-login/11088 "2023-08-21T13:30:06Z")
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### Author:  [@BikeJake68](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/BikeJake68)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/mapping-ad-authenticated-windows-shares-on-login/11088/1 "2023-08-21T13:30:07Z")
I am having problems - because obviously, mount requires sudo membership.
The AD Join and permissions are working.
But accessing the windows shares at a user level is not .
I have use gvfs and udisks before as I recall - can anyone offer any advice please?
GVFS commands seem to be unknown
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### Author:  [@linde](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/linde)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/mapping-ad-authenticated-windows-shares-on-login/11088/2 "2023-08-21T17:32:48Z")
The command `gio mount` is a user-level command (no sudo required) good for making connections that you’ll mostly use in a GUI file manager, but it doesn’t mount things to a nice path like the traditional `mount` command.
`pam_mount` is another option that works for more traditional mounts.
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### Author:  [@BikeJake68](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/BikeJake68)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/mapping-ad-authenticated-windows-shares-on-login/11088/3 "2023-08-22T16:19:16Z")
Thanks Linde,
I did some more digging and found gio mount.
Agreed the path could be better - but it works.
My problem is getting my valid kerberos ticket through so the users isn’t asked for creds.
I am playing with my smb.conf
Any suggestions gratefully received.
It has occurred to me if I could work out the inline syntax I could use $password and $username perhaps but I can’t seem to pipe the gio mount the creds
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### Author:  [@BikeJake68](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/BikeJake68)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/mapping-ad-authenticated-windows-shares-on-login/11088/4 "2023-08-24T10:28:39Z")
Seems to be that gvfs / gnome is now using the valid kerberos ticket.
I put it in debug mode and it worked … archh…now I am not sure what I’ve done that fixes it.
pam mount seems to be depreciated from 9 also