samba - Apr 2002 - Auto create home dirs - how?

I have setup Samba 2.2.3a with an OpenLDAP backend to store users, groups
and computers successfully, which means users are created there directly and
not through the normal unix utils.  This means the user's home directory is
not created when the user is.

Does anyone have ideas on how to get Samba to automatically create a home
directory?

Sounded easy to me, but I have the added complication of having many user's
home directories on separate Samba servers (ie not the PDC), so I can't just
add a 'root prexec = createhomescript' in the [netlogon] share.

I've tried the 'root prexec' in the [homes] section but Samba will
not show
the user's home share unless the home dir exists - seems like a chicken and
egg situation to me.

Ideas?

Regards,

Warwick Smith
Electronic Services Officer / Webmaster
Email: warwick@imvs.sa.gov.au
Web:   http://www.imvs.sa.gov.au
Tel:   +61 8 82223832
Fax:   +61 8 82223147

* If it's never finished, you can't prove it doesn't work. *

Hi,

Have you checked out a PAM module called pam_mkhomedir.so?

Cheers

JC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warwick Smith" <warwick@imvs.sa.gov.au>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: [Samba] Auto create home dirs - how?

> I have setup Samba 2.2.3a with an OpenLDAP backend to store users, groups
> and computers successfully, which means users are created there directly
and
> not through the normal unix utils.  This means the user's home
directory
is
> not created when the user is.
>
> Does anyone have ideas on how to get Samba to automatically create a home
> directory?
>
> Sounded easy to me, but I have the added complication of having many
user's
> home directories on separate Samba servers (ie not the PDC), so I can't
just
> add a 'root prexec = createhomescript' in the [netlogon] share.
>
> I've tried the 'root prexec' in the [homes] section but Samba
will not
show
> the user's home share unless the home dir exists - seems like a chicken
and
> egg situation to me.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Warwick Smith
> Electronic Services Officer / Webmaster
> Email: warwick@imvs.sa.gov.au
> Web:   http://www.imvs.sa.gov.au
> Tel:   +61 8 82223832
> Fax:   +61 8 82223147
>
> * If it's never finished, you can't prove it doesn't work. *
>
>
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