samba - Jan 2004 - Using variables with pdbedit

I am trying to set up roaming profiles and I got it working. Could someone
confirm if Samba variables work or do not work in the user database. If I do
the following option:

pdbedit -s -u username -p "\\\\servername\\sharename\\profilename" my
roaming profiles work fine but I have to direclty specify the server name
and username. If I do not double up all the "\" it does not work.

now if I do this instead

pdbedit -s -u username -p "\\\\%L\\sharename\\%u it will not work and the
XP
says cannot find the share. Is this normal?

Cheers,

Jared

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:18:59PM -0800, jared@kfh.org
wrote:
> I am trying to set up roaming profiles and I got it working. Could someone
> confirm if Samba variables work or do not work in the user database. If I
do
> the following option:
> 
> pdbedit -s -u username -p
"\\\\servername\\sharename\\profilename" my
> roaming profiles work fine but I have to direclty specify the server name
> and username. If I do not double up all the "\" it does not work.
That's is the shell eating them.  This is normal.
> now if I do this instead
> 
> pdbedit -s -u username -p "\\\\%L\\sharename\\%u it will not work and
the XP
> says cannot find the share. Is this normal?
> 
smb.conf expansions are valid only in the smb.conf, not in pdbedit or LDAP.

Andrew Bartlett