[Samba] Samba3-beta1 as a PDC and using tdbsam as passdb backend it takes the home-directory info from /etc/passwd

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Jun 24 14:45:10 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 23:47, Patrik Gustavsson PS Sweden Senior
Technical Consultant wrote:
> 
> I didn't get any answers so I try again:
> 
> 
> I am using tdbsam as passdb backand.
> 
> I have added root user with pdbedit.
> 
> The machine trust account was added on the fly.
> 
> I have added the user with pdbedit.
> 
> I have created the user in /etc/passwd.
> 
> When the user logs in from a W2k and mounts the home-directory I noticed
> that Samba didn't take the home-directory information from tdbsam, it 
> took it from /etc/passwd.
> 
> Is that correct ?
> 
> I assumed it would use the info in tdbsam.

tdbsam stores only NT things like the profile path and the drive letter
to map it to - it does not store the unix info, like their unix home
directory.

Andrew Bartlett

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