[Samba] A user named homes and homedir mounting

[Andrew Bartlett]

Ben Vaughan wrote:
> 
> I run a pretty large network, we have plenty of users.  Most of our users
> have their windows home directories on Samba servers.
> 
> One of these many users has the username "homes".
> 
> This user is unable to map their home directory (\\sambaserver\homes).
> 
> It seems that this could be a conflict between the "homes" share definition
> and his username and samba getting confused.

Indeed, samba would get very confused.

> Could this be a bug or unchecked special case in samba?  Has anyone else
> seen this behavior?

The 'homes' share can be renamed at compile time, see include/local.h.  

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net