samba - Aug 2007 - Samba 2.0.25 won't accept home directory location from ADS

Here at the College we have configured a Samba server as an ADS member
server and have everything working nicely except one rather large
detail.

The people that setup the domain accounts have custom "profile" and
home
drive locations depending on the last two characters of the user name.  

For example a user with the id of 545238794 will have their profile
pointed to \\servername\profiles\9\4\545238794 and their home directory
is pointed to \\servername\users\9\4\545238794

Now Samba handles the profile directory without problem with a small
script to create the folder with "root preexec", however, there
doesn't
seem to be a way to have the home mapped.  In the log files it always
points to /home/domain/username no matter what is set from ADS.

Is this a feature that Samba lacks or is it a bug?

Is it possible to have the home mapped differently?  If so how?

Thank you

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George Farris wrote:
> Now Samba handles the profile directory without problem 
> with a small script to create the folder with "root preexec",
> however, there doesn't seem to be a way to have the home
> mapped.  In the log files it always points to
> /home/domain/username no matter what is set from ADS.
> 
> Is this a feature that Samba lacks or is it a bug?
The unix home directory and Windows home directories
are considered to be different paths.  You can experiement
with mounting \\server\share as /home/domain/username
using the CIFS fs on linux.





cheers, jerry
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