NIS homedir map and home share names

Andrew Miller andrew.miller at csfb.com
Wed Nov 19 17:07:02 GMT 1997


> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:23:46 -0500
> From: Rob Naccarato <rob.naccarato at sheridanc.on.ca>
> To: samba at samba.anu.edu.au
> Subject: NIS homedir map and home share names
> Message-ID: <199711171923.OAA03997 at viking.sheridanc.on.ca>
>
>
> We are making use of the NIS homedir functionality in our environment, but
> I've found something a little disturbing.  ...
>
> ... 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....

I've made the same hack.  It's cleaner, and seems to fix any "persistent
connection" problems.

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