samba - Jul 2005 - Automatically creating home directories?

Hello to all.

I want to use winbind to automatically create email accounts.  I've added 
several linux boxes to our win2k3 AD and working pretty well (more in a new 
post about this).  When I create a new user on the win2k3 box, users can 
access various shares on the linux boxes, as it should be.  I also have a 
sendmail server sitting in a DMZ.  I have to create the email user account on 
this box separately.  I'd like to eliminate this step.

I've added 3.0.14a to the email server, and fired up winbind.  It works like
a
charm!  But ... I still need to create user home directories so that mail 
gets deilvered to thier mailboxes.  I know there's a samba directive as 
follows:  "template homedir = home/%D/%U".  Should this create user
home
directories?  If not, is there a way to do this automatically, and if so, 
how.

As always, many thanks.

Dimitri

You can add a pam module to create them but that would require users to
login first. I did a quick google and found this which might help you.

http://mirrors.techiesabode.com/linuxgazette/101/levkovich.html


Michael Luich
Unix Admininstrator
DSCI corp
mluich@dscicorp.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+mluich=dscicorp.com@lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+mluich=dscicorp.com@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
Dimitri Yioulos
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:50 PM
To: Samba
Subject: [Samba] Automatically creating home directories?

Hello to all.

I want to use winbind to automatically create email accounts.  I've
added 
several linux boxes to our win2k3 AD and working pretty well (more in a
new 
post about this).  When I create a new user on the win2k3 box, users can

access various shares on the linux boxes, as it should be.  I also have
a 
sendmail server sitting in a DMZ.  I have to create the email user
account on 
this box separately.  I'd like to eliminate this step.

I've added 3.0.14a to the email server, and fired up winbind.  It works
like a 
charm!  But ... I still need to create user home directories so that
mail 
gets deilvered to thier mailboxes.  I know there's a samba directive as 
follows:  "template homedir = home/%D/%U".  Should this create user
home

directories?  If not, is there a way to do this automatically, and if
so, 
how.

As always, many thanks.

Dimitri
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