Home directories, Samba 4, what am I doing wrong?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Nov 8 13:15:43 MST 2011


On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:04 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 11:43 -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I had a Samba 3 server that wasn't doing anything special, just letting
> > users store files on a Fedora 14 server where they also had shell accounts
> > under homes.
> > I installed Samba 4, added user accounts with Active Directory Computers and
> > Users, put:
> > [homes]
> >         comment = Home Directories
> >         path = /home
> >         read only = No
> 
> Should the "path" be "path=/home/%u" ?

No, as Samba4 does not support the % subs.  This will change when we
start using the Samba3 file server but for now it will appear literally
in the path. 

Andrew Bartlett

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