winbindd and user home creation

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 4 19:18:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Brian Whitehead wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any good information on the creation of home directories on
> > the Samba server when using Winbind?  I'm trying to figure out how to set a
> > users home directory on a Win2K server to a directory that resides on a
> > Linux server running Samba/Winbind.  Obviously if I'm running winbind then
> > the accounts/directories don't exist.  Is there a way to have this done
> > automatically or does it have to be done manually for each account?  The
> > docs on Winbind are lacking of good information on everything but simple
> > setup.
>
> Look at pam_mkhome  shouel be standard with pam 0.7X

Or a simple root preexec script on [homes] if accessing from a Windows
client.






chau, jerry
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