On 31 Oct 1997, Matt Holtz wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> I am having a problem. I read the documentation, but it what it says
doesn't
> seem to work.
oops!
> Here is my setup...
>
> Client NT 4.0
>
> Server - Sun Solaris 2.5.1 with NIS+.
which version of samba? please, if you want me to reply, give full
information in your postings, so that you don't have to send out a second
posting.
> Problem:
> The documentation says that you can have samba do an NIS lookup to find
> the home directory of a user. Samba, then will return the server that
> contains the Home directory, and then NT should go to that computer.
>
> I addes these lines to the smb.conf:
> nis homedir = true
> homedir map = auto_home.org_dir
>
> Samba processes this fine, but it doesn't seem to be bouncing the
clients to
> the appropriate server. Is there something that I am missing?
yes, the code added in 1.9.17 doesn't refer you to the appropriate
server. having understood (in the last three weeks) exactly what homedir
maps are, i've added a new option %N in to samba-1.9.18alpha.
this option defaults to %L if the NIS homedir support is either unused or
unsupported. the profile directory and home directory now default to
\\%N\%U\profile and \\%L\%U respectively.
the %N option takes the "server" part of server:/users/home_directory
and
substitutes that.
therefore, if you are running samba on each of server1:/users/home_dir
and server2:/users/home_dir (which will be necessary, by the way), then
when the user logs in to _either_ server1 or server2, they will be
referred to the correct home directory server.
luke (samba team member).
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