homes share questions

[Ron Alexander]

Ok, I can accept that homes is a "magic" share, but where does Ron_Alexander
(my NT and VOS login) come from? I thought that Samba was being clever
enough to actually create the share name using my login name, and was
confused by the fact that there was 2 'home dir shares'. I actually can't
access the Ron_Alexander share, so I set up a username map to map me to
samba1. Then I do see my home dir under both homes and samba1.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: James Sutherland [mailto:jas88 at cam.ac.uk]
Sent: May 22, 2000 10:10 AM
To: Ron Alexander
Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
Subject: Re: homes share questions


On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ron Alexander wrote:

> 1. Why do I always see a share named homes as well as one with my logon
> name. They both contain the same files, which are in my home directory.

homes is a "magic" share, which always points to the current user's home
directory - whoever that user is. Quite useful in login scripts etc.

You can disable it if you want - just delete the [homes] section of your
smbd.conf file.

> 2. Is there a 10 char limit on either a share name, or a login name. In
the
> case where I login with a name longer than 10 chars, then I do NOT get
what
> I stated in 1 above. I get an invalid network name on the long name share.

There certainly can't be a 10 character limit on username - NT's
Administrator account would have problems then! (Not that NT admins don't
have problems - they just don't have that particular one...)

There may well be a limit imposed by the OS Samba is running on, though;
there shouldn't be a limit on directory names like this, though. Shares?
Not sure :-(


James.