> I have two locations, and I want all users to authenticate on Machine A. > Howver there are some users that are closer to machine B, and I would like > to be able to have the homes of those users on machine B rather than > machine A (they should authenticate on machine A anyway). > > Is this possible without a mount of the users (those I want on machineB) > home directories on machineA.
That would also double your bandwidth utilization, assuming you're saying that B is something like, say, across a VPN tunnel. > Using the usrmgr.exe it looks like it should be possible to change the > location of the homes (\\serverB\username), but the change does not take > effect. I do not use ADS, just plain regular samba. > > trying to set path = \\machineB\homes results in an ERROR message: Shouldn't this be \\machineB\username ? > > tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME What is your backend? Have you tried using/manning the pdbedit command? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Mounting the share from serverB on serverA works perfectly all rght, it is > not what I want though. > > So far google and the big samba book have not found a solution. > > Thanks, > > .peter > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba