[Samba] UNIX paths vs UNC names in [profile]

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 05:56, John H Terpstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jeff Gardiner wrote:
> >
> > > QUESTION
> > > My question therefore is this - I have multiple /home/subdomain directories,
> > > like
> > > /home/disk1
> > > /home/disk2
> > > /home/backupdisk3b  ... etc
> > >
> > > How do I store the profile in the users home dir.  My rationale is that as all
> > > of my OSX users, and Unix/Linux users have to adhere to a quota - I'd rather
> > > force my windows users to adhere to the same quota by storing their profile
> > > in /home/disk?/user/profile and I could do that using \\%L\%U\profile.  Now
> > > one solution is to apply the quote to say /var/lib/samba/profile/%U but I'd
> > > rather keep the profile in or off of the home dir anyway.
> > >
> > > resolving /home/disk?/user/profil using Unix path names is difficult because I
> > > have so many disks with home dirs.
> > >
> > > BTW I've tried:
> > > path = ~%U/profile
> >
> > You could try:
> >
> > path = %H/profile
>
> What's wrong with not having a [profile] share at all, and instead using
> the [homes] share, and a profile subdirectory?
>
> This has the advantage that windows knows they are different files for
> each user, and will not attempt to 'optimise' the file locking between
> users (remember, MS has a strictly one-to-one mapping between shares and
> real disk paths).
>
> > >
> > > hoping that ~user would resolve correctly. It didn't seem to work.
> >
> > The problem is that the profile handling may do some anonymous file access
> > to the Windows users' profile. This may fail if you store the profile in
> > the home directory and 'others' do not have access rights to this location
> > on disk.
>
> I know this happens with netlogon - but have you really seen it with
> profiles?

Yes. With Win2K Pro clients. In the final stages of writing the profile
to the server, only when the profile existed before login. I have not seen
this with XPPro though.

- John T.

>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org