[Samba] Can't map [homes] share with Samba 3 configured as PDC

[Knut Kroeger]

Hi Gary,

Mansell, Gary schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I have followed the worked example in the HOWTO documentation for the small Engineering Office which demonstrates how to configure Samba-3 as the PDC for an NT domain.
> 
> I have setup a RHAS 3.0 Linux box and have configured Samba as per the instructions in the book.
> 
> Using an NT 4.0 client workstation I can sucessfully login as the user grma (It authenticates against the Samba PDC OK) but I cannot seem to map the user's home directory. The log file indicates: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
> This seems strange to me as I have had home directories working fine on previous versions of Samba that are not acting as PDC's.
> 
> Here is my smb.conf file:
> 
> [root at mistysrv samba]# more /etc/samba/smb.conf
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
> # Date: 2004/01/28 15:11:06
>  
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         debug level = 10
>         workgroup = MISTY
>         server string = MISTYSRV Samba Server %v
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 50
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         printcap name = cups
>         add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
>         delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
>         add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
>         delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
>         add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
>         delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null %u
>         logon script = scripts\logon.bat
>         logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
>         logon drive = H:
>         logon home = \\%L\%U
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 35
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         dns proxy = No
>         ldap ssl = no
>         idmap uid = 15000-20000
>         idmap gid = 15000-20000
>         printing = cups

OT: wins support = yes would be a good idea for a PDC if you haven´t 
wins running on any other machine.

>  
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         valid users = %S

AFAIK this wont´t work properly with samba 3.x. Did you tried this 
without "valid users = %S"?

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Your smb.conf looks good, but did you check it with testparm?


Greeting from Germany

Knut