AW: [Samba] Logon scripts, home directories, and Samba4 AD

[Daniel Müller]

This could do the job
Identify the home share on your samba3 fileserver (certain it is member of
your samba4 domain?!) as dfs root

Ex:
msdfs root= yes

On samba4 ads
[home]
        msdfs proxy= \your-samba3-server\homes
        read only = No

with rsat point to \your-samba3-server\homes

Good luck
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EDV Daniel Müller

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Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
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Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
Internet: www.tropenklinik.de
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Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im
Auftrag von Lee Allen
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013 00:20
An: samba at lists.samba.org; samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Betreff: [Samba] Logon scripts, home directories, and Samba4 AD

I apologize if this appears twice: I posted it several hours ago and it has
not appeared on the list, so I am tweaking the email address and trying
again.

I have two separate (virtual) servers: one running Samba4 functioning as an
AD controller, and one running Samba 3.6.1  functioning as a file & print
server.

On the Samba3 side I am using security=ads and winbind and authenticating
against the Samba4 ADC.  Everything is working great.

Where things get a little messy is with the [homes] shares.

Here is what I am doing now:

My Samba3 smb.conf has a typical [homes] section.  I create a subdirectory
for each user, and set ownership & permissions.

I create a logon script on the Samba4 system -- one for each user, because
the username is embedded in it:
net use H: \\samba3\username

And then I use RSAT to set the logon script to the correct value for each
user.

It's just a lot of steps that need to be performed (perfectly) for each
user.  Is there a better way?

I see RSAT allows me to specify a "Home folder".  Could this be a folder on
the Samba3 server -- ie, \\samba3\username ? (I tried that and it did not
work)

I can imagine some scripts that would create the logon script on the Samba4
system, and create the necessary directories on the Samba3 system.  I could
probably manage that, but I hate to re-invent the wheel --

If there is a clean, orthodox way to do this, I would like to know what it
is.

Thank you.

Lee Allen
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