Service homes not working

[Anders Gytri]

I have just installed samba-1.9.18p3 on a DEC 3000/300 running OSF/1 v3.0
(uname -mrsv gives: "OSF1 V3.0 347 alpha"). It was compiled using the
built-in cc compiler. Special options in the Makefile:

FLAGSM = -DOSF1 -DNETGROUP -DUFC_CRYPT -FAST_SHARE_MODES
LIBSM =

The server is a NIS client.

Everything seemed to work O.K. except for the homes service.
Connecting to \\computername\username worked O.K.

Previously samba-1.9.17p3 was installed on the same computer, and the homes
service worked O.K. No changes was made to the smb.conf file after installing
samba-1.9.18p3.

The homes section in smb.conf looked like this:
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   writable = yes

I have experimented a bit trying to find out what to do to make the homes
service work with the new samba version. I found out that if I change the
homes section in smb.conf to look like this:

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   path = %H
   browseable = no
   writable = yes

Then it works O.K.

Without the "path = %H" line, the error message in the log file is:
Can't change directory to  (No such file or directory)

Has anyone else experienced this problem ?


Anders Gytri