samba - Nov 2003 - Samba 3 Automount Home directory using Solaris/LDAP

Dear All,

I am trying to automount a home directory on a Samba server. The Samba 
server is set to USER security and it does currently authenticate to an 
LDAP server (iPlanet DS 5.1). However, once logged in I would like to 
see an entry pointing to the users home directory which is done 
automatically using data from the LDAP directory. There are nearly 
20,000 users in the directory so setting up one share for each is not 
practical.

Thanks,
Philip.
School Of Computing And Technology
University Of Sunderland.

Giovanni,

Thanks for the information. I think I have got it working. I also had to 
enable NIS Homedir to Yes (Even though the protocol is LDAP). I am not 
sure if this made a difference as I had changed a few other parameters 
as well. So far so good though.

Thanks,
Philip.
School Of Computing And Technology
University Of Sunderland.


Giovanni Romanenghi wrote:
> Philip Jackson wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am trying to automount a home directory on a Samba server. The 
>> Samba server is set to USER security and it does currently 
>> authenticate to an LDAP server (iPlanet DS 5.1). However, once logged 
>> in I would like to see an entry pointing to the users home directory 
>> which is done automatically using data from the LDAP directory. There 
>> are nearly 20,000 users in the directory so setting up one share for 
>> each is not practical.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Philip.
>> School Of Computing And Technology
>> University Of Sunderland.
>>
>>
>>
> You can add this entry in your smb.conf
> [share]
> path = /home/%G%U
> %U is the user
> %G is the GRUOP
>
> When the user is logging samba mount the correct share for each users.
>