Charles wrote:>
> It is my understanding that you can specify nis homedir = yes in the
> global section, and then when you connect to the [homes] service, Samba
> will "bounce" the user to their actual home server, providing it
is also
> running samba. I am using 1.9.18p3 on all servers.
>
[snip]>
> Why isn't Samba attempting the hand off? If I try it w/o the path =
%p,
> then Samba just uses $HOME and you get the NFS hop. We have about 20 NFS
> servers so it would be real nice if we could roll out one PC image that
> maps to one home server, and get Samba to pass off the connection to the
> appropriate server as listed in auto.home to avoid the extra hop.
>
> Charles
You have to get the client to connect home directories something
like this:
net use h: /home
The client will then query the logon server, get the home path and
connect directly to that machine.
Simeon
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