[Samba] Home directories in samba 3.0.6

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Hamish wrote:
| Hello all
|
| Just in case anyone has similar problems:
| We have a kixtart script which maps folders for users, I
| am not sure  where it happened, but I made a mistake with
| users home directories. A  couple of users were not
| copied from our old 2000 server during the move
| to samba and so were created manually. This worked
| fine with /homes/user, but since the upgrade to 3.0.6 some
| users have failed to connect.  This was due to case
| sensitivity on the directories (should have been
| /homes/User). I am not sure why this worked in >3.0.5,
| but 3.0.6 doe not  like it. Hope this helps someone,

could be the fix that Jeremy checked in.

from WHATSNEW.txt....

~    * Ensure home directory service number is correctly reused
~      (inspired by patches from Michael Collin Nielsen
~      <michael at hum.aau.dk>).




cheers, jerry
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