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

cisco cisco at email.arizona.edu
Thu Apr 17 15:38:13 GMT 2003


I finally discovered my error. I had the 'logon home = \\%L\homes\%U'. 
Once I chnaged it to \\%L\%U it started working.
Thanks for everyone's help on this!!!!!

Kristyan Osborne wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Make sure you have 
> logon drive = p:
> logon home = \\%L\%U
> in your smb.conf file in the global section (you may need to HUP smbd)
>  
> from your win2k box you should be able to do     net use h: /home
>  
> If this doesnt work then run the command   net user yourusername /domain
> This command will tell you where windows thinks the home directory is. (this should be \\server\username)
>  
> Cheers
>  
> Kristyan Osborne
>  
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: cisco [mailto:cisco at email.arizona.edu] 
> Sent: Wed 16/04/2003 00:16 
> To: samba at lists.samba.org 
> Cc: 
> Subject: [Samba] Re: net use H: /home does not work
> 
> 
> 
> 	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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> 	>>> work                       |
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> 	>>>             "Our mission is to help our clients achieve more
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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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