[Samba] vfs_shadow and [homes]

Ed Plese ed at edplese.com
Fri Mar 2 20:43:14 GMT 2007


On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:44:32AM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote:
> Yeah, I'll be anxiously awaiting your improvements, too.  We also have about 500 users and creating all those symlinks, plus keeping on top of creating the symlinks for new users would be impossible.  All those symlinks would also need to added to my snapshot scripts.
> 
> I might also mention, there is a problem with shadow_copy when mapping a drive to a subfolder of the share...  You must create symlinks in the subfolders, which has been doable for our commonly used drive mappings, but it's cumbersome.  A more elegant solution would be appreciated :)

I agree this would be very helpful.  I'll have to check how the shadow
copies behave in that situation.


Ed Plese


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