[Samba] trailing $
David Krovich
dkrovich at csee.wvu.edu
Thu Oct 17 22:43:02 GMT 2002
Yeah, the approach I took was to use the %u macro, although I couldn't
get it to work in the service definition, ie [%u$], so I used the
include option and wrote a script to generate an include file for each
user. With 2000 users, it's ugly and hackish, but it gets the job done.
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 06:26, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> David Krovich wrote:
> >
> > Here is the situation. I have NT 4.0 acting as a PDC on machine A. On
> > machine B, I have Sun PC Netlink running on a solaris machine. In the
> > PDC all home dirs are mapped to \\pcnetlinkserver\username$
> >
> > I'm trying to replace PC Netlink with Samba on Machine B. The problem
> > is I can't figure out how to make samba do the right thing when
> > presented with username$. Mounting a username without the trailing $
> > works, but I would like Samba to share the user's homedir when it
> > receives a request for either \\pcnetlinkserver\username or
> > \\pcnetlinkserver\username$.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. I tried searching, but it's tough for
> > me to figure out how to correctly phrase my question to a search
> > engine.
>
> Not currently supported, but would not be *too* hard to support if you
> really wanted to add it...
>
> Possibly you could use %u macros for it, but that stuff gets werid fast.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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