Samba caching directory handles? (Writes to incorrect home dir)

[James Sutherland]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> What I am wondering is if samba does any caching of directory handles or
> the like, and whether samba could be mis-translating //servername/homes
> to the wrong user, using the directory from a previous user.  Is this at
> all possible?

IIRC, Windows does this: when a new user logs on, it finds a cached
"\\servername\homes" connection, and continues to use that. ISTR there's a
caveat about this in the docs - something along the lines of "don't use
\\servername\home for a home directory mapped to /home/%U because Windows
will cache the first user's \\server\home and reuse it for the next user"?

Can you switch to something like \\server\home\username as the home
directory? This will be a nuisance for users - everything becomes
"H:\username" instead of "H:\" - but at least their home directories will
be private again! Alternatively, perhaps you could use \\server\username -
so each user has a different sharename for their home directory?


James.
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