Scott Tanner
2016-Feb-12 21:07 UTC
[Samba] Home directory share on member server in Samba 4 AD domain
Hello All, I'm planning a new Samba AD domain for our company and I'm a little confused as to the proper setup of users home directories on the domain. I've read countless articles describing a basic setup using a [homes] share, but this seems to conflict with the User_home_drives article on the wiki which specifies a [home] share. I'm currently planning for the following server layout, all running Samba 4.3.4 on CentOS 7: Domain controllers: local_ad01 remote_ad01 local_ad02 remote_ad02 File servers - both with a /mnt/dataVol/homes volume for home dirs: local_fs01 remote_fs01 I'd like to have the users home directories created automatically during user creation or log-in. I noticed the --home-directory option for the "samba-tool user add" command, which seems to define which server/share to use. So for the file servers, do I define a [home] or [homes] share? Do I need to define anything on the DC's or will specifying the location via command line be sufficient? Thank you, Scott