Urs Rau
2005-Mar-30 21:27 UTC
[Samba] "logon path" and "logon home" settings return different values in 3.0.13?
When exactly did the samba meaning/returns for "logon path" and "logon home" change? (at which version?) We used to have a system that appeared to be working well and it was as follows logon script = logon.bat logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = h: logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile domain logons = Yes and the [profiles] share had the following [profiles] comment = User Profiles path = /usr/local/samba/profiles profile acls = Yes root preexec = PROFILE=/usr/local/samba/profiles/%u; if [ ! -e $PROFILE ]; then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown %u.%g $PROFILE;fi this gave all users a h: (for homes) regardless whether they were on win9x or xp and their win98 profile was under h:\.profile and h: was mapped to \\server\homes and their xp machines still mapped h: to \\server\homes but the profiles were safely tucked away under \\server\profiles\%U, away from users harm. But now on 3.0.13 I noticed that the xp workstations h: drive now get's mapped to \\server\homes\.profile, XP is now reading the "logon home" dir, why? why is xp "suddenly" picking up what used to be used by the win9x machines? I am sure there is a good writeup somewhere that explains how I set my profiles up now. The smb.conf man page has warnings about not using %U in the "logon path" but how else do I get my old functionality back? I would like to have the following effect (on both win98 and xp clients) 1. the user having a h:drive that get's mapped against his unix home dir 2. and xp can handle the profile being "somewhere" else and we don't want a drive mapping for it (but how do we now set this up so we don't run foul of the xp habit of keeping connections open even after a user has logged out? 3. and for the win98 we want the profile to be in a "safer" dir and would be quite happy for that to continue to be the ".profile" subdir under the users win98 and unix home dir What would I have to do with my "logon home", "logon path" and "logon drive" ? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Urs Rau PS: I guess our current setup would explain why samba sometimes said a user was still logged in and using files when they were not?
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