Samba 2.0.6, NT and logon scripts

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

At 04:13 PM 2/9/00 +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>i _told_ ya - the tandard_sub stuff is totally stupidly broken :)
>
>anyway, you can't use %u, in lp_logon_script() you have to use %U.

Hmmm, well, OK, you are right ... However, %u works for Win9X logons, and
now I know that %U works for Win NT logons ...

>On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> Hi,	
>> 
>> I have been experimenting and messing around with Samba 2.0.6 as a PDC ...
>> and have found that is you set logon script to %u.bat, things do not work
>> very well. It seems that the code that handles the RPC call that retrieves
>> all the appropriate info does not call standard_sub on lp_logon_script :-(
>> 
>> Thus if you had a mixed Win9X and NT environment, you would be forced to
>> use include files to allow you to:
>> 
>> 1. Generate scripts for Win 9X users
>> 2. Have a logon script for NT users that was relevant ...
>> 
>> ie,
>> 
>>     logon script = %u.bat
>>     include = /etc/smb.conf.%a
>> 
>> Let's see if this works ...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> -------
>> Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
>> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
>> Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
>> Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
>> 
>
><a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
><a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development   </a>
><a href="http://samba.org"        > Samba Web site                  </a>
><a href="http://www.iss.net"      > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
><a href="http://mcp.com"          > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>
>
> ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
>
>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course