On 02/07/12 17:20, steve wrote:
On 02/07/12 17:49, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 17:39 +0200, steve wrote:
Samba4 with Linux and Windows clients wanting to get the same home
folder data.
Hi
A college has students arranged with Linux home directories according to
which year they belong to and which class within that year, a or b or
whatever, they belong to e.g.:
/home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
/home2/students/year7/year7a/student2
...
...
/home2/students/year13/year13a/student2500
To get at the same data on windows, I was thinking of a share for each
of the classes e.g.
[year7a]
path = /home2/students/year7/year7a
read only = No
browsable = No
...
...
[year13a]
path = /home2/students/year13/year13a
read only = No
browsable = No
and mapping a drive letter to the share e.g.
map Z: to \\server\year7a\%USERNAME%
Deal with it through your NSS mechanism so that the file server knows
for \\server\%USERNAME% where the users home directory is actually
located and then you can just use the special [homes] share.
I do this with winbind and the unixHomeDirectory attribute in AD.
JAB.
Hi Jonathan
Thanks for the quick response.
I think I must be missing something here because as far as I can see,
winbindd puts all users into the directory specified in template
homedir. [homes] then picks out the user from there.
At the moment we are using nss-pam-ldapd to grab the unixHomeDirectory
from AD. How do I get winbindd or nss to map unixHomeDirectory to
something I can then map to a windows drive letter?
Cheers,
Steve
Hi Steve,
Have you considered using autofs to do all of the mapping work for you,
so that you have only one /homes/ (or whatever else you want to call it)
to worry about?
L
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