homes share questions

[James Sutherland]

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ron Alexander wrote:

> 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.

It sounds like some limitation on either share name length or usernames -
or is it objecting to the "_"? Have you tried, say, changing to
"RonAAlexander" or similar?


James.