[Samba] Home drives not as documented

John Ryan johnryan_852 at iprimus.com.au
Fri Dec 3 07:40:44 GMT 2004


Thanks. It worked a treat.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
To: "John Ryan" <johnryan_852 at iprimus.com.au>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Home drives not as documented


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> John Ryan wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm using Samba 3.0.5 on a Fedora Linux box.
> | I have in my smb.conf
> |
> | logon home = \\%L\%u\.profile
> | logon path = \\%L\profiles$\%u
> | logon drive = H:
> |
> | [profiles$]
> | comment = Windows XP profile directory
> | path = /home/profile
> |
> | [homes]
> | comment = home dirs
> | browseable = no
> | writeable =yes
> |
> | I have a mixture of Win95 and WinXP clients
> | The Win95 clients map the home drive correctly to the
> | users home directory, and store their profile in
> | ~/.profile, but the WinXP clients map H: to ~/.profile.
> | I've tried various combinations of logon home and logon
> | path, but whatever I set logon home to, is where H:
> | gets mapped to by WinXP
> |
> | I could change it to \\%L\%u but then the Win95 macines
> | dump their profile in the home directory. I want both XP
> | and 95 boxes to have H: as their home dir.
> 
> I would recommend using something like
> 
> include = ..../logon_%a.conf
> 
> to set the logon home on a per client arch basis.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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