Hi all Just signed onto the samba mailing list! Have been using samba since I migrated our servers over to linux about 3 years. Unfortunately our clients are still all wintel boxes... With the advent of W2K and its profiles I was planning on setting up multple samba configurations using the "config file=" or "include=" parameters in the smb.conf file. In the process of setting up my server I seem to have run into some problems with the standard substitutions. I was wanting to setup samba to load a different configuration based on the primary group of the user (ie either %g or %G), however these subsitutions don't appear to be getting resolved. In my efforts to get it working I resorted to creating a share with some substitution fields in the comment to see what results they were returning. The following is a sample of what my conf file had: "comment = %u %U %g %G %m". This produced the following comment when viewed through Windows Explorer: "%u paulb %g %G phixx". It appears as though %u, %g, %G aren't working. I'm assuming that this would be a known problem. I was wondering if there is a fix anyone knows of? I am using samba 2.2.1a-4 (as provided with RH7.2)... Would installing the latest version solve the problem? TIA ------------------------------ Paul Baumgarten Information Technology Manager Kingsway Christian College Email: paul@kcc.wa.edu.au Office: 08 9302 8777 Mobile: 04 1994 2779 ------------------------------
Hi all Just signed onto the samba mailing list! Have been using samba since I migrated our servers over to linux about 3 years. Unfortunately our clients are still all wintel boxes... With the advent of W2K and its profiles I was planning on setting up multple samba configurations using the "config file=" or "include=" parameters in the smb.conf file. In the process of setting up my server I seem to have run into some problems with the standard substitutions. I was wanting to setup samba to load a different configuration based on the primary group of the user (ie either %g or %G), however these subsitutions don't appear to be getting resolved. In my efforts to get it working I resorted to creating a share with some substitution fields in the comment to see what results they were returning. The following is a sample of what my conf file had: "comment = %u %U %g %G %m". This produced the following comment when viewed through Windows Explorer: "%u paulb %g %G phixx". It appears as though %u, %g, %G aren't working. I'm assuming that this would be a known problem. I was wondering if there is a fix anyone knows of? I am using samba 2.2.1a-4 (as provided with RH7.2)... Would installing the latest version solve the problem? TIA ------------------------------ Paul Baumgarten Information Technology Manager Kingsway Christian College Email: paul@kcc.wa.edu.au Office: 08 9302 8777 Mobile: 04 1994 2779 ------------------------------