[Samba] %g variable not working

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Aug 18 21:19:18 GMT 2005


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Noah Dain wrote:

| [homes]
|   comment = %U's Home Directory
|   path = /home/%D/%M/%U

%M is the client's hostname.  You need to set
'hostname lookups = yes' for this to work.

|   valid users = %D+%S
|   read only = No
|   browseable = No
|   root preexec = /etc/samba/scripts/mk_sambadir %D "%U" "%G" %m %M %I
|
| I even tried using a reverse lookup script for
| the hostname, but that only gets the proper directory
| path created, one that Samba is unaware of.

For the client netbios name, you probably need to
set 'smb ports = 139'








cheers, jerry
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