NIS homedir map and home share names

[Rob Naccarato]

We are making use of the NIS homedir functionality in our environment, but
I've found something a little disturbing.  The format of the map looks
thusly:

username	server:/some/path

I assume the path points to a user's home dir.  Does Samba make use of
the path at all, or is it in there just for compatibility with the
Automounter?

Secondly, in the DOMAIN.txt document, it states under "Configuration
Instructions: Setting up Roaming User Profiles" that there is a problem
"where Windows clients can maintain a connection to the [homes] share
between logins. The [homes] share should must not therefore be used in a
profile path".

This is great and all, but why does Samba return a user's home share as
\\server\homes rather than \\server\username ?

I've made a small hack to password.c that makes the user's home share
as \\server\username rather than \\server\homes (note that I'm far
from being the world's greatest programmer):

password.c: line 213:
/* ROB  
  strcpy(vuser->home_share,"\\\\%L\\HOMES");
*/
  strcpy(vuser->home_share,"\\\\%L\\");
  strcpy(vuser->home_share,vuser->name);

password.c: line 233:
/* ROB
    strcat(vuser->home_share,"\\homes");
*/
    strcat(vuser->home_share,"\\");
    strcat(vuser->home_share,vuser->name);

-- 
Rob Naccarato           "I know I'm a lot of feathers,
Sys Admin               but not much chicken."
Sheridan College                         -KM
Oakville, Ont. Canada