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

[Tom.Williams at diversifiedsoftware.com]

Does the Samba box need to be configured as a PDC to make this work?

The command:

net use H: /home

doesn't identify to which server you will connect for the H: drive
resource.  When I connect to network drives on other Windows servers, I
also put the server name in the net use command:

net use X: \\server\share

Peace...

Tom



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I don't have a home defined for each user. Samba allows you to create a
HOMES share that is generic for all users on the system and supposedly
if you have in your logon script 'net use H: /home' and you have the
global parameter 'logon drive = H' it's all supposed work magically and
each user will see their home directory mapped using their logon id.

Tom.Williams at diversifiedsoftware.com wrote:
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> I've got Samba installed on AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris servers.  I have
> "Homes" configured on each of them and when we map drives from Windows,
we
> map the user's home directory directly:
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> net use H: \\{server}\tom
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> and "tom" is my Unix login id and the name of my home directory on that
> box.
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> Are your Windows IDs different from the defined Unix account names?
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> Peace....
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> Tom
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>             "Our mission is to help our clients achieve more
cost-effective
> data center operations."
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> That was already set correctly. It still does not work.
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> Greg Miller wrote:
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>>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
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>>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:
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>>[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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