Running Samba 2.2.2, having troubles with preexec when it involves the 
path parameter:
Log on to the samba server as kris, user "users".
%U expands to kris, %G expands to users.
[profile]
    path = /data/profile/%U
    preexec = /bin/mkdir -m 700 /data/profile/%U
    writable = yes
    create mode = 0600
    directory mode = 0700
This fails to work, Samba reports that it could not open 
/data/profile/kris. Replacing preexec with "root preexec = /bin/mkdir -m 
700 /data/profile/%U; chown %U:%G /data/profile/%U" fixes the problem, 
but it does not explain what the problem with preexec is. If I remove %U 
from the path parameter, preexec works, the directory does shows up, but 
I don't it set-up this way of course.
I found a bug report about preexec not working, but supposedly it has 
been fixed in 2.2.1.
Thanks
- Kris Jordan -
Other than saying this is a permissions problem, I would look at the logs with log level = 3. Samba will probably tell you why this fails. Joel On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:03:42AM -0800, Kris Jordan wrote:> Running Samba 2.2.2, having troubles with preexec when it involves the > path parameter: > > Log on to the samba server as kris, user "users". > %U expands to kris, %G expands to users. > > [profile] > path = /data/profile/%U > preexec = /bin/mkdir -m 700 /data/profile/%U > writable = yes > create mode = 0600 > directory mode = 0700 > > This fails to work, Samba reports that it could not open > /data/profile/kris. Replacing preexec with "root preexec = /bin/mkdir -m > 700 /data/profile/%U; chown %U:%G /data/profile/%U" fixes the problem, > but it does not explain what the problem with preexec is. If I remove %U > from the path parameter, preexec works, the directory does shows up, but > I don't it set-up this way of course. > > I found a bug report about preexec not working, but supposedly it has > been fixed in 2.2.1. >
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:03:42AM -0800, Kris Jordan wrote:> Running Samba 2.2.2, having troubles with preexec when it involves the > path parameter: > > Log on to the samba server as kris, user "users". > %U expands to kris, %G expands to users. > > [profile] > path = /data/profile/%U > preexec = /bin/mkdir -m 700 /data/profile/%U > writable = yes > create mode = 0600 > directory mode = 0700 > > This fails to work, Samba reports that it could not open > /data/profile/kris. Replacing preexec with "root preexec = /bin/mkdir -m > 700 /data/profile/%U; chown %U:%G /data/profile/%U" fixes the problem, > but it does not explain what the problem with preexec is. If I remove %U > from the path parameter, preexec works, the directory does shows up, but > I don't it set-up this way of course. > > I found a bug report about preexec not working, but supposedly it has > been fixed in 2.2.1.I just fixed this in the SAMBA_2_2 CVS tree. If you could check out the new code and test this I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Jeremy.