samba - Jun 2000 - Multiple login scripts

Hi,
I work for a school district and am in the middle of
configuring a SAMBA server to provide our students and
faculty with the capabilites to save thier data on the SAMBA
server.  

Is there a way to setup different logins for students and
staff?  My current logon script line is as follows:

        logon script = homelogon.bat

I know you can youa %u varialbe and assign individual logon
scripts for each user, but this is unneccssary.  Instead is
there a group variable I could use to have staff.bat and a
student.bat login script run according to which group the
person is in?

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.  Feel free to email
me directly as well as thourgh this list.

Aaron Zuercher
Assistant System Administrator
Pekin School District 108
Pekin, IL

"A. Zuercher" <aaron@otherland.pekin.net>
wrote:
> scripts for each user, but this is unneccssary.  Instead is
> there a group variable I could use to have staff.bat and a
> student.bat login script run according to which group the
> person is in?
I too am trying to do this.. I have dynamic logons working from the 
example in samba integrating unix and windows.. but need to get the 
groups from unix so I can use them to map drives in my perl logon
script.

if any perl deity is hanging about.. please help.

ash

Aaron Zuercher wrote:
| Is there a way to setup different logins for students and
| staff?  My current logon script line is as follows:
        logon script = homelogon.bat

Sure, use %G or %g in the path to the script:
     %G is the primary group name of %U (requested username) 
     %g is the primary group name of %u (actual username)

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ash@trellick.net wrote:
> 
> "A. Zuercher" <aaron@otherland.pekin.net> wrote:
> > scripts for each user, but this is unneccssary.  Instead is
> > there a group variable I could use to have staff.bat and a
> > student.bat login script run according to which group the
> > person is in?
> 
> I too am trying to do this.. I have dynamic logons working from the
> example in samba integrating unix and windows.. but need to get the
> groups from unix so I can use them to map drives in my perl logon
> script.
> 
> if any perl deity is hanging about.. please help.
 
This bit of code should do what you want. It takes a username as a
command line argument, and returns a list of the groups that user is a
member of. You can pull the username from Samba, and then chain this in
to do whatever you like.

#!/usr/bin/perl

$username = $ARGV[0] || die "Need a username!\n";

while (($name, $passwd, $gid, $members) = getgrent) {
        @members = split(/\s/, $members);
        foreach (@members) {
                if (/$username/) {
                        push(@groups,$name);
                }
        }
}

foreach (@groups) {
        print "Found user in group: $_\n";
}