[Samba] Re: net use H: /home does not work

[cisco]

Shawn Wright wrote:
> This looks more like a client side error. Are they win9x clients by any 
> chance? I don't think win9x clients support the "/home" option. Do a net 
> use /? |more to check. 
They are W2K clients.
> 
> On 15 Apr 2003 at 17:59, Greg Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>Try this:
>>
>>Login to swat and go to globals and select advanced view.  Scroll down
>>to the Login Options section and set the logon drive to H:
>>
>>If you don't use swat add logon drive = H: to the samba conf in the
>>global section.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: samba-bounces+gmiller=eccbm.com at lists.samba.org
>>[mailto:samba-bounces+gmiller=eccbm.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
>>cisco
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:41 PM
>>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>>Subject: [Samba] net use H: /home does not work
>>
>>The latest Orielly book Using SAMBA 2nd edition says that after you have
>>
>>created a homes share that adding this line to your logon.bat file the 
>>user's home directory will be mapped and it will be called their user 
>>name. Well the logon.bat script gets an error on this line saying that 
>>it is not the proper use of the net use command. So instead I changed 
>>the command to net use H: \\pts3\homes and that works except the name 
>>that displays on the mapped drive is homes - not the user's logon name. 
>>How do I make this work properly?
>>Here is the definition of my homes share:
>>
>>[homes]
>>	comment = Home Directories exported for users
>>	path = %H
>>	valid users = %S
>>	read only = No
>>	create mask = 0600
>>	directory mask = 0700
>>	browseable = No
>>
>>John Francisco
>>University of Arizona
>>
>>
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