Hello
I am having a very trippy time trying to get the [homes] share to work
on my samba 3.0.3pre2-SuSE (SuSE 9.0) server working.
Users home folders have been copied from an old sbs server to
/data1/fileroot/PersonalFiles.
Here is the [homes] section of my smb.conf:
[homes]
path = /data1/fileroot/PersonalFiles/%S
valid users = %S
admin users = MYDOMAIN\administrator
browseable = No
exec = echo u=%u S=%S >> /data1/fileroot/ITManagement/connhome.rtf
The exec= is my attempt at making sure the variables are subsituted
properly (this still does not work all the time, even though the file is
chmod 777).
The correct directory always shows in explorer when the server is
connected to ie \\samba\fred but only works SOMETIMES - i cannot figure
out what causes this! Sometimes the comment for the directory (in
windows explorer) is "Home directory of DOMAIN\User", sometimes it is
"Home directory of User" - Same user, same box, after disconnecting
the
user or the user rebooting his xp machine, it will change and prompt for
authentication, sometimes it will just let him in. During this the samba
server has not been touched, connected to or looked at.
I do not know if it is related, but i occasionally get the following in
log.smbd:
[DateTime, 0] lib/substitute.c:alloc_sub_basic(505)
alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string! This should not happen
If I remove valid users=%S, the users can all connect succesfully to
their home directories - the problem with this is that they can also
connect to anyone elses home directory.
The only other alternative I can think of is to individually set
permissions on each users home folder, which will take quite a while!
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Hamish
