[Samba] smb.conf for around 2500 users

[Matthieu Patou]

On 07/02/2012 08:39 AM, 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%
>
> That would make lots of shares but would make it readable to non admins.
>
> Is there a limit on the number of shares per installation?
> Any other ideas of how to go about it? e.g. I thought about OU's but 
> we do not want to administer from Windows.
Did you thought about making a new directory ie.
/home2/students/data with a link to each real user and then sharing data 
like that

[data]
path = /home2/students/data
read only = No
browsable = No

And then use ADUC or ldbedit to specify the connect to attribute and set 
it to \\servername\data\%username%

This fields accept a couple of placeholder I let you discover the others 
(search engines are your friend).

Matthieu.

> Cheers,
> Steve
>


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Matthieu Patou
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