Path = /truepath/profile You use the /path/%U when using a script to setup the user account in ldap.
Then you need to look at the [Profile] Area to have the client connect to the samba share. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Logan Shaw > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Samba] Home dirs problem > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Marian Neagul wrote: > > I have a question about mapping users home directory's to samba. > > The homedir layout is based on an old one used on NIS+ system. The > > structure is something like: > > /users > > /group1 > > /user1 > > /user2 > > ... > > /group2 > > /user3 > > ... > > /group3 > > /group3_1 > > /user4 > > ... > > /group3_2 > > ... > > /group4 > > /user5 > > > > How can I configure samba to use this home directory's? The user > > data is stored in LDAP (including the home directory and other > > information not related to samba: qmail-ldap, courier, etc) ? > > The only option I've found is something similar to: > > > > path = /home/%U > > > > Can samba retrieve the home directory from LDAP? > > Do you mean that if you do "finger user" or "getent passwd user" > that the directory you want shows up in that output? If so, > just delete the "path" statement from the "[homes]" section. > Samba will use the user's home directory by default. > > Note, however, that you didn't really make a distinction between > the Unix system using the data stored in LDAP as its password > database (through some mechanism like nsswitch) and the home > directory data just being in LDAP. I believe that if the Unix > system isn't using the LDAP data and passing it through to calls > like getpwent(), then Samba won't use the LDAP data either. > > - Logan > -- > 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
