samba - Aug 2006 - Samba, Home Directories and Roaming Profiles

Hey guys,

Got an interesting problem for you all.

I am currently running Samba 3.0212 on a Fedora Core 5 server.  I am trying to
set up the users' home directories and profile paths.

This is how I want it to work.

I have a share called "Home" to store all the home directories.  So
for example
the home directory path would be \\server\home\user.  I want to set the Profile
path to \\server\home\user\Profile.

However, when I try and change the defaults using pdbedit using 'pdbedit
user
-h"\\\\server\\home\\user"
-p"\\\\server\\home\\user\\Profile"', it doesn't
actually change.  The home directory is still \\server\user, and the profile is
still \\server\user\profile.

Is there any reason this happens?

Cheers!

On Sun,  6 Aug 2006 10:28:00 -0500
tim@qfoke.com wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Got an interesting problem for you all.
> 
> I am currently running Samba 3.0212 on a Fedora Core 5 server.  I am trying
to
> set up the users' home directories and profile paths.
> 
> This is how I want it to work.
> 
> I have a share called "Home" to store all the home directories. 
So for example
> the home directory path would be \\server\home\user.  I want to set the
Profile
> path to \\server\home\user\Profile.
> 
> However, when I try and change the defaults using pdbedit using
'pdbedit user
> -h"\\\\server\\home\\user"
-p"\\\\server\\home\\user\\Profile"', it doesn't
> actually change.  The home directory is still \\server\user, and the
profile is
> still \\server\user\profile.
> 
> Is there any reason this happens?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
Does the share "Home" includes the option "path"?

The problems you have seem to be related to the "path" options used in
the shares "Home" and "Profiles".

To change the path of the profiles you need to create a share called
"profiles" and there set right the path where the profiles is indeed
stored.

Read the section "SPECIAL SECTIONS" off the smb.conf manpage. There
you will find how to set correctly the paths to use.

Good luck.

-- 
Miguel Da Silva.
Servicio de Informatica.
Facultad de Ciencias.