On 07/02/2012 08:39 AM, 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%

That would make lots of shares but would make it readable to non admins.

Is there a limit on the number of shares per installation?
Any other ideas of how to go about it? e.g. I thought about OU's but we do not want to administer from Windows.
Did you thought about making a new directory ie.
/home2/students/data with a link to each real user and then sharing data like that

[data]
path = /home2/students/data
read only = No
browsable = No

And then use ADUC or ldbedit to specify the connect to attribute and set it to \\servername\data\%username%

This fields accept a couple of placeholder I let you discover the others (search engines are your friend).

Matthieu.

Cheers,
Steve



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Matthieu Patou
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