logon path

Victor Sudakov vas at gateway.dtu.tsu.ru
Mon Jan 4 05:27:25 GMT 1999


> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 09:48:10 +0100
> From: Rudolf Spreckels <Rudolf.Spreckels at mh-media.de>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: SAMBA digest 1924
> Message-ID: <199901020848.JAA24974 at Linux.mh-media.de>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > I have the following entries, among others, in my smb.conf file:
> 
> > ===== cut here =====
> 
> > logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
> 
> > [profiles]
> > comment = User Profiles
> > path = /usr/home/profiles
> > public = yes
> > writable = yes
> > browseable = yes
> 
> > ===== cut here =====
> 
> > So, I expect 'net use z: /home' on a win95 machine to map z: to
> > /usr/home/profiles/name_of_current_user.
> 
> > However, it maps z: to /usr/home/profiles, with the subdirectories of all
> > users available to everyone whoever does 'net use z: /home'.
> 
> > How does mapping after 'net use /home' depend upon the 'logon path'
> > variable?
> 
> > What could I be doing wrong?
> nothing, but then you use a logonscript then the logon path uses the drive Z:
> and you can╢t use this for another path under SAMBA

Sorry, I did not quite understand you.

If I map for example 'net use q: /home', I get the same result, that is the
whole profiles' hierarchy instead of just the profile of the current user
U%.

-- 
Victor Sudakov
VAS4-RIPE, http://www.dtu.tsu.ru/~vas
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