On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:35 -0500, Olivier Houde wrote: > Jonas Jochum wrote: > > >Am Friday 11 November 2005 15:15 schrieb Olivier Houde: > > > > > >>Hi list > >>is there any way to specify on wich server a user's home is ? Let me > >>explain myself... I have a Samba3 PDC here at the head office using > >>LDAP as an authentication backend. We have offices in other cities and > >>we would like them to be on the same domain. All those offices are > >>linked using VPNs. I have no problem to configure LDAP and Samba to work > >>together. The problem is that i want all those offices to be completely > >>independant in case the VPN link goes down. For that, i need to split > >>all my user's home between the BDCs and the PDC (depending in wich > >>office the user is working), if want the users to still have an access > >>to their home and profiles. I have an LDAP master here and a LDAP slave > >>in each office. How can i tell samba that depending on the user, its > >>home is on a different server ? Can i use LDAP for that ? If it's > >>possible, how can i do that ? Should i use an other solution ? Trusted > >>domain instead ? > >> > >>Thanks > >>Olivier Houde > >> > >> > > > >Have a look at the LDAP attributes sambaHomePath and sambaProfilePath. > > > >Regards, > > Jonas Jochum > > > > > I did, but they are linked to the LDAP attribute : Home Directory That > attribute leads directly to the location of the home directory on the > server. In my case, i wrote \\servername\ohoude as Samba home path and > \\servername\ohoude\.msprofile in samba profile path. It works because > my home directory is on the LDAP master at /home/ohoude. But what if i > need to have my home directory on another server than the master ldap ? ---- all relevant information snipped but this is result from querying my ldap server for my settings.
sambaProfilePath: \\srv1\profiles\craig sambaLogonScript: logon.bat sambaHomePath: \\srv1\homes\craig sambaHomeDrive: h: As you can see, I could change the sambaProfilePath and sambaHomePath to be located on any valid share on the network. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba