samba - Jan 2002 - About 'logon home'

Hello,

How can i configure the 'logon home' (default is \\%N\%U) ?
I use 'nis homedir = Yes' and 'homedir map = auto_home.org_dir'
The home directory of my users is never on %N (the PDC) ???

(Samba 2.2.2 as PDC, Solaris 8)
Thanks,
-- 
Guy Roussin

Hello,

I think that the binary version of samba 2.2.2 for solaris 2.8
i use was compiled without --with-automount --with-nisplus-home.

I suggest to add the configure options in the pkginfo. 
It will be very usefull with 'pkginfo -l samba'

Personnaly, i correct 2 files (very badly) in packaging/Solaris

1) pkginfo.master
I correct the line DESC= with this line :
DESC=File and printer sharing for Windows - configure : __CONFIGSTATUS__
Note the maximum length of 256 ASCII characters for DESC

2) makepkg.sh

i change the line :
sed -e "s|__VERSION__|$VERSION|" -e "s|__ARCH__|`uname -p`|"
-e
"s|__BASEDIR__|$INSTALL_BASE|g" pkginfo.master >pkginfo

with 2 lines :
CONFIGSTATUS=`head -7 ../../source/config.status | tail -1 | cut -c 15-`
sed -e "s|__CONFIGSTATUS__|$CONFIGSTATUS|" -e
"s|__VERSION__|$VERSION|" \
    -e "s|__ARCH__|`uname -p`|" -e
"s|__BASEDIR__|$INSTALL_BASE|g" pkginfo.master >pkginfo

Thanks,

Guy

Guy Roussin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How can i configure the 'logon home' (default is \\%N\%U) ?
> I use 'nis homedir = Yes' and 'homedir map =
auto_home.org_dir'
> The home directory of my users is never on %N (the PDC) ???
> 
> (Samba 2.2.2 as PDC, Solaris 8)
> Thanks,
> --
> Guy Roussin
>

Hi Guy,
       this behaviour is a real feature not a bug, if you
run a larger site with several fileservers. But you can
change this:

;  disable NIS-based server selection -> %N mapped to this server.
   nis homedir             = false
;  homedir map             = auto.pchome

;  W95, WfW use logon home other's use logon path
;  all use the sharename as Home-Directory
   logon drive          = Z:
   logon home           = \\%N\%U\profiles\%a
   logon path           = \\%N\%U\profiles\%a

You can easily replace %N by servernames either. This setup is on my
home-network, with
a single server, which is also the DC. At my company i use a NIS-Map to
distribute
load between the servers. In I dislike the desktop-stuff in the top of my
Unix-Home,
thus i added the profiles subdirectory. My colleague from PC-Support asked for
Windows-Architecture dependant profiles, thus I added the %a. I am not using the
standard auto.home map, since i have some special Users, that lived in i
Novell-Network
previously, and have their old Novell-Home withe the PC-Files different from
their
Unix-Home, thus i am running a few (virtual) servers, that offer the old Novell-
Directories as the [homes]-Share.

Hope that helps.
Anayone out there to comment on this setup?

Regards
Gunther

Guy Roussin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How can i configure the 'logon home' (default is \\%N\%U) ?
> I use 'nis homedir = Yes' and 'homedir map =
auto_home.org_dir'
> The home directory of my users is never on %N (the PDC) ???
> 
> (Samba 2.2.2 as PDC, Solaris 8)
> Thanks,
> --
> Guy Roussin
> 
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