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

cisco cisco at email.arizona.edu
Tue Apr 15 23:16:04 GMT 2003


Jer,
It looks like you have a seperate logon script for each user. Samba is 
supposed to work with one generic logon script for all users when the 
homes share is setup and 'logon drive=H' and 'net use H: /home'.

Jerry Lynde wrote:
> Our setup here has the following in smb.conf...
> 
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         username = %S
>         writeable = Yes
>         create mask = 0744
>         force create mode = 0775
>         directory mask = 0750
>         browseable = No
> 
> 
> Slightly different from what you have. The command we use to connect to 
> the shares is 'net use H: //$hostname/$username' where $hostname = the 
> *NIX machine with samba running and $username is the *NIX username. 
> Works like a charm. You may want to try something similar.
> 
> Jer
> 
> At 04:44 PM 4/15/2003, cisco wrote:
> 
>> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>> net use H: \\{server}\tom
>>> and "tom" is my Unix login id and the name of my home directory on that
>>> box.
>>> Are your Windows IDs different from the defined Unix account names?
>>> Peace....
>>> Tom
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>>> That was already set correctly. It still does not work.
>>> 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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