samba - Oct 2003 - template homedir confusion

Hi,

I have set up Samba 3.0.0 with ADS integration. It works fine, with a
workaround for a small oddity.

I use template homedirs like this:
      template homedir = /home/%D/%U

On a soon-to-be-retired server running 3.0a19, I have a directory LOCAL
(as in LOCAL.DOMAIN.NAME) containing the homedirs - this works as
expected from the output of "getent passwd", which shows the homedirs
of
domain users as /home/LOCAL/username. However, on my new server with
3.0.0, this wouldn't work. Examining smbd.log, I found that smbd
actually looks for /home/LOCAL.DOMAIN.NAME/username. Slightly puzzled, I
checked the getent output again, and sure enough, it still says
/home/LOCAL/username. A simple symlink fixed the problem, but it does
seem odd. I looked through the release notes, but didn't see this
mentioned (though I might have overlooked it). Anyone care to comment? I
assume this is not an accidental change of behavior... :-)


        Sverre

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 09:50, Sverre Johan T?vik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have set up Samba 3.0.0 with ADS integration. It works fine, with a
> workaround for a small oddity.
> 
> I use template homedirs like this:
>       template homedir = /home/%D/%U
> 
> On a soon-to-be-retired server running 3.0a19, I have a directory LOCAL
> (as in LOCAL.DOMAIN.NAME) containing the homedirs - this works as
> expected from the output of "getent passwd", which shows the
homedirs of
> domain users as /home/LOCAL/username. However, on my new server with
> 3.0.0, this wouldn't work. Examining smbd.log, I found that smbd
> actually looks for /home/LOCAL.DOMAIN.NAME/username. Slightly puzzled, I
> checked the getent output again, and sure enough, it still says
> /home/LOCAL/username. A simple symlink fixed the problem, but it does
> seem odd. I looked through the release notes, but didn't see this
> mentioned (though I might have overlooked it). Anyone care to comment? I
> assume this is not an accidental change of behavior... :-)
It certainly looks odd...

File it up as a bug in bugzilla.

Andrew Bartlett

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