Re: [Samba] Home dirs problem

[Logan Shaw]

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
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RE: [Samba] Home dirs problem

[Daniel Northam]

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.

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 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
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