%N gives %L

[Todd Pfaff]

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Mr. Alex Stepney wrote:

> I want to use %N in my smb.conf file to get the name of a users
> home dir server, but it returns the Samba servers name i.e. %L. 
> I've reconfigured the source (./configure --with-automount) and
> recompiled, but still get the same problems. Any idea's?

have you set these in smb.conf?

nis homedir = true
homedir map = homemap (or whatever the name of your nis homedir map is)

homedir map is an nis map of the form:

username server:/path/to/homedir

where username is the key.

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