Help with preexec

[Carey F. Cox]

I am trying to incorporate nonstandard home directories into my "homes" 
share, meaning the I have users that have home directories under /home 
and /staff. I found the macro (%H) that can be used to access these 
directories, but am now trying to implement an automatic initial 
creation of a .samba directory under each user's home directory if 
there is none present.

I am basically following the procedure as set forth in Blair's book 
on page 237 for using the "preexec" and "root preexec" commands. The 
following usage of "root preexec" command, 

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   path = %H/.samba
   root preexec = if [ ! -e %H/.samba ]; \
             then /bin/mkdir %H/.samba ; \
                  chown %u.%u %H/.samba ; fi
   browseable = no
   writable = yes

works fine, but the regular "preexec", 

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   path = %H/.samba
   preexec = if [ ! -e %H/.samba ]; \
             then /bin/mkdir %H/.samba ; fi
   browseable = no
   writable = yes

does not work. I would much prefer this be done under the userid. 
Is there something I'm missing? 

Thanks,

Carey

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