[Samba] smb.conf for around 2500 users

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 17:39 +0200, steve wrote:
> Samba4 with Linux and Windows clients wanting to get the same home 
> folder data.
> 
> Hi
> A college has students arranged with Linux home directories according to 
> which year they belong to and which class within that year, a or b or 
> whatever, they belong to e.g.:
> /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
> /home2/students/year7/year7a/student2
> ...
> ...
> /home2/students/year13/year13a/student2500
> 
> To get at the same data on windows, I was thinking of a share for each 
> of the classes e.g.
> [year7a]
> path = /home2/students/year7/year7a
> read only = No
> browsable = No
> ...
> ...
> [year13a]
> path = /home2/students/year13/year13a
> read only = No
> browsable = No
>
> and mapping a drive letter to the share e.g.
> map Z: to \\server\year7a\%USERNAME%
> 

Deal with it through your NSS mechanism so that the file server knows
for \\server\%USERNAME% where the users home directory is actually
located and then you can just use the special [homes] share.

I do this with winbind and the unixHomeDirectory attribute in AD.

JAB.

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Jonathan A. Buzzard                 Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk
Fife, United Kingdom.