Tricky Samba Issue

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Geoff Silver wrote:

> Hello.  I've been a Samba user for quite a while, but I've had a bit of
> trouble getting the newer winbind stuff to work as I require, and was
> hoping someone might be able to help.  I'm not subscribed to the list, so
> if you would CC me or e-mail me privately, that would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Right now I'm using winbind to fit into our NT domain.  I'd *like* to have
> the system automatically create home directories whenever a user connects,
> but the default [homes] connection tries to connect to share <domain+user>
> instead of <user>, which doesn't exist.  Specifically, it gives me the
> error "couldn't find service mydomain+mylogin" in my log.smbd file.
> 
> I though about using preexec to 'mkdir -p /home/%u', but that doesn't seem
> to work (perhaps it doesn't get to the preexec part because the directory
> doesn't exist?)  Strangest part is that I create a /home/domain+user
> directory, but it still gives the same error in the logs.  Am I missing
> something?  Is there a better way to do this?  Thanks!


I've heard that people have success with the PAM mkhome module.  Perhaps you
should look at that.

I've just had a quick look on google and I don't seem to be able to find it.
I heard about it on this mailing list so pehaps the archives will help.


Yours Tony.

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