I've run into a bit of a peculiarity with exporting home directories
and what they map to.
I'm running SuSE samba-3.0.23b-0.1.35.
I have partition /home, with usernames on my linux box.
Am running in "user security" mode.
I'd like to be able to not only access my home directory, but
the parent as well (/home). Some of the /home directories are
"software project homes" instead of user homes. So I'd like to
be able to cd into /home/projects, for example.
On the server, I've exported the home directory 3 different ways (trying
to find one that would work).
I have [homes] with path of "/home", comment "All Users
Home"
I have [home] with path of "/home/%U" comment "Home
directory"
and [%U] with path of "/home/%U" comment "Home directory".
Running "smbtree", on the server I see:
\\SERVER\homes All Users Home
\\SERVER\home Home Directory
\\SERVER\user Home Directory
Seems ok so far. But the problem: on my XP client,
accessing gives this server path:
\\server\homes -> \home\userhome
\\server\home -> "empty"
\\server\%U -> \home\userhome
For some reason "my share named "/homes" is mapping me to my
user directory, while /home maps to "nada?"
I'm guessing maybe "/homes" is a special name reserved for
user home dirs and it will automatically map a user to
their home directory?
Why would //ishtar/home map to nothing?
It appears that \\server\homes is the "all users Home" with
path "/home" (but not from an xp client)
And it looks like \\server\home maps the way I want it to from
"smbtree" on the server. But on the client, it gets a blank?
I've even tried matching "/home" to "/home", but
that's turning up
empty as well (could it be a cached empty directory?)
Anyone else tried to setup the ability to access "/home" (the dir)
above the user's dir?
TIA,
Linda
