[Samba] Re: Automatic Folder Creation

Norman Zhang norman.zhang at rd.arkonnetworks.com
Wed Feb 18 19:13:23 GMT 2004


John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Norman Zhang wrote:
>>Samba creates home folders automatically for new users that connects to
>>it. Is there a way to get Samba to create a "username" folder in another
>>parition with 777 permission (similiar to home)?
>>
>>e.g.,
>>
>>/home/My Domain/nzhang (default creation)
>>
>>/sharepartition/nzhang (wish to have)
> 
> Check /etc/defaults/useradd

I checked useradd only creates home folders but not others. I could 
write a bash script

SHARED=/sharepartition/$1
md $SHARED
chmod 777 $SHARED
chown $1.$1 $SHARED

But how can I link this with the uid connecting to Samba?

Regards,
Norman



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