[Samba] User's home folders

zingalo lozingalo at gmail.com
Thu May 3 02:28:10 MDT 2012


On 05/03/2012 10:01 AM, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, zingalo/Stefano,
>
> Du meintest am 03.05.12:
>
>> Hi,
>> yes, home directories are specified in the homeDirectory attribute
>> as:
>
>> //amahoro/users/zingalo
>
> That's the samba notation. //$SERVER/$SHARE
>
You mean my notation is wrong?

>> but after logging this creates the same directory on the client and
>> this is wrong.
>
> What tells
>
>          df
>
df on the client?

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             44186760   4018224  37923928  10% /
udev                   1539868         4   1539864   1% /dev
tmpfs                   618748       864    617884   1% /run
/dev/sda4            195262036 186862356   8399680  96% 
/media/44A936374932B99A

>
>> The home directories must be mounted at login time
>
> No - that's no "must". That may be convenient.
>
ok :)

>> and i wouldn't add
>> a line on /etc/fstab for every home of every user on every client!!!
>
> That's correct.
>
> But a simple script should do the job. It should mount the special home
> share via "cifs".
>
> Have you tried my proposal?
>
i never did a script to do this. I think the script should have some 
variables to recognize username and password typed on login. i don't 
where start!



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