On Tuesday 10 May 2005 15:47, Jon Wilson wrote: > Eric Hines wrote: > > This isn't entirely fair. There are three kinds of newbies [....] > > The third kind has read the docs and still has a problem, else they > > wouldn't be on the mailing list looking for help. > > I don't think the word "newbie" applies, sorry guys. I've been using > unix since about 1991 and Samba since the early 2.x releases. I believe > I had a geniune problem, and is now solved. > > My "logon path" setting was quoted, and thus broken. OK, the docs now > say NOT to do this, but the quoted setting worked fine on the previous > (FreeBSD) installation. Should I be expected to trawl through every > documentation change related to every possible explanation of my > problem? I think not. I asked on the list, got some example configs > which were known to work, and compared them closely. Problem solved. > Thank you. > > What the docs do not say is that "logon path" seems to be used only in > the creation of new profiles. Existing users have their profile path > configured in the tdb database, and so thinks worked fine for them. > Someone with a clearer understanding of the internals may wish to submit > some documentation on how all this is meant to work. > > Jon
I have expanded the warning in the man page for this section so that the apparent tatoo effect is better documented. Thanks for the feedback. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
