[Samba] Samba PDC and User Management with Perl scripts

[Umberto Nicoletti]

Hi Thomas,
thanks for your answer.
Comments follow.
thomas_tiedtke at de.schindler.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Umberto,
> 
> the simply way is to make a share with use of the group (%G)
> substitution. A path=/groups/%G will give you /groups/<primary
> groupname of user (%U)> ... it´s work like the homes section.
> 

My problem is that alla users have primary group set to users or
something like that, so it doesn't help much.

> A another way is a "root preexec=<shell script> %U %G ...." for the
> netlogon share to generate the netlogon scripts for the clients. This
> script must generate a client style bat or cmd file like
> <username>.cmd , which was called by the "logon script=<username>.cmd"
> parameter.
> Like:        netlogon LOGONSERVER\<Group_Share>
>         and so on ...
> The netlogon script must have CR LF at any end of a line!

But would it be generated in time for the client to read it?
Also this does not sound portable...I mean in a pure (well, actually it
is polluted by M$ itself) NT environment user and group enum would work,
hence also my script would.

Anyway it's better than nothing...

I think I'll simply create logon scripts periodically out of a cron job
with a shell script or so, so that each user gets its custom logon
script which is spawned from the main logon.bat that is set for eveybody
at domain level.

> 
> I hope, it help´s!

Sure it did,
Umberto

> 
> Regards, Thomas

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