Re: [Samba] Home Drive Mapping problems

[Robert Rati]

Replacing valid users with users didn't change anything.  Unless I 
have the path variable enabled in the [homes] section, I get this error 
from windows when trying to browse any home drive:

The network name can not be found

Is there some kind of mapping I need to do that I'm not understanding? 
The only way I've gotten a home directory mapped is by enabling the path 
variable, but then ALL home drives the user looks at are that exact path.

Rob

Computer Science wrote:
Replace valid users  for users.  Simple fix once you know this is 
the problem.

Leo

Robert Rati wrote:

I've got Samba 3.0 on a Debian stable system set up to authenticate 
using an LDAP server (also on the Debian system), and I'm having 
problems getting home drive mapping to work.  What I would like, is 
that if someone browses to the Samba server (on a win2k PC), they can 
see all the home drives of all the users on the server and also have 
read-only access to them.  The owner of a home drive would have it 
mapped to their win2k machine and have read-write access, obviously.  
Here's the entry I have in LDAP for the home drive:

sambaHomePath: \\PDC\homes

and here's my [homes] section in smb.conf:

[homes]
#   path =/home/%u
   comment = Home Directories
#   valid users = %S
   browseable = no
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0644
   directory mask = 0755
If I enable valid users, then no one can log into their home drives.  
In fact, I can't figure out what user IS valid to look at the home 
drive. I can sort of get things to work if I enable the path variable, 
but then I have an issue that every home drive the user looks at on 
the server is their home drive.  For example, if userA looks on the 
PDC, he sees drives for userA, userB, and userC.  If userA looks in 
any of the drives all he sees is the contents of userA's home drive.  
All of the examples I've looked at don't use the path variable in 
[homes], but if I don't then windows reports the share isn't 
accessable when browsing to it. What am I doing wrong?

Rob


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[Samba] Home Drive Mapping problems

[Robert Rati]

I've got Samba 3.0 on a Debian stable system set up to authenticate 
using an LDAP server (also on the Debian system), and I'm having 
problems getting home drive mapping to work.  What I would like, is that 
if someone browses to the Samba server (on a win2k PC), they can see all 
the home drives of all the users on the server and also have read-only 
access to them.  The owner of a home drive would have it mapped to their 
win2k machine and have read-write access, obviously.  Here's the entry I 
have in LDAP for the home drive:

sambaHomePath: \\PDC\homes

and here's my [homes] section in smb.conf:

[homes]
#   path =/home/%u
   comment = Home Directories
#   valid users = %S
   browseable = no
   writable = yes
   create mask = 0644
   directory mask = 0755
If I enable valid users, then no one can log into their home drives.  In 
fact, I can't figure out what user IS valid to look at the home drive. 
I can sort of get things to work if I enable the path variable, but then 
I have an issue that every home drive the user looks at on the server is 
their home drive.  For example, if userA looks on the PDC, he sees 
drives for userA, userB, and userC.  If userA looks in any of the drives 
all he sees is the contents of userA's home drive.  All of the examples 
I've looked at don't use the path variable in [homes], but if I don't 
then windows reports the share isn't accessable when browsing to it. 
What am I doing wrong?

Rob

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