samba - Jun 2004 - problems with homes share

Hi,

I am currently setting up samba on a network which on the UNIX side has NIS
user's home dirs under a /homes automount - not quite sure why, but they are
and this I can't change just now.

I therefore need to share the home accounts under a shared samba called
homes, this of course plays havoc with the intended functionality of the
homes share.

I end up with a share called homes which allows the users to browse all home
accounts, which is fine.
\\machine\homes\all-users

I also get a share which mirrors the above share, however instead of the
homes path it uses to username of the user connecting to the share,
\\machine\username\all-users

I'd like to completely turn off the latter share, or have homes have homes
behave in the way it should as well as allowing the homes\all-users share.
\\machine\homes\all-users
\\machine\connecting-user

My smb.conf entry of homes look like

[homes]
   path = /homes
   comment = Homes Directories
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   create mode = 0664
   directory mode = 0775
   case sensitive = yes
   preserve case = yes

Any help much appreciated, although I fear the only answer will be to change
the NIS accounts to /home.

Thanks
Martin.

p.s. no idea why the original sys admin set-up the NIS accounts on /homes.
:-(

Hello all!

I am adding a PC to my home network that will act as a combination
database server/print server (driving an HP 612C/Epson FX-85 printer).
It will run SuSE linux.

My other machine(s) consist of a firewall, a dedicated W2K box and a
primary Linux box for SW development. I am going to put Samba on this
new box. DO I want this new box to be the primary Samba host/controller?
How should I coordinate this in the smb.conf files between the two linux
boxes?

Thanks for your help.

Joe

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