[Samba] template homedir confusion

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:33, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 09:50, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have set up Samba 3.0.0 with ADS integration. It works fine, with a
> > > workaround for a small oddity.
> > > 
> > > I use template homedirs like this:
> > >       template homedir = /home/%D/%U
> > > 
> > > On a soon-to-be-retired server running 3.0a19, I have a directory LOCAL
> > > (as in LOCAL.DOMAIN.NAME) containing the homedirs - this works as
> > > expected from the output of "getent passwd", which shows the homedirs of
> > > domain users as /home/LOCAL/username. However, on my new server with
> > > 3.0.0, this wouldn't work. Examining smbd.log, I found that smbd
> > > actually looks for /home/LOCAL.DOMAIN.NAME/username. Slightly puzzled, I
> > > checked the getent output again, and sure enough, it still says
> > > /home/LOCAL/username. A simple symlink fixed the problem, but it does
> > > seem odd. I looked through the release notes, but didn't see this
> > > mentioned (though I might have overlooked it). Anyone care to comment? I
> > > assume this is not an accidental change of behavior... :-)
> > 
> > It certainly looks odd...
> > 
> > File it up as a bug in bugzilla.
> 
> Will do. Should I include more detail, or will the above do?

With bug reports, any useful extra detail should be filed - it saves the
person fixing it from having to ask you for it later.

smb.conf, and client/server types is particularly important - the issue
here appears to be mixes of ADS and NT4 representations.

Andrew Bartlett

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