[Samba] Security question for newbie

[Tim Tait]

Guille Williams wrote:

>Yeah!!!!
>
>Well I decided to break down and read the help file, which I should have
>done all along, and figured out what eliminates the problem.
>
>Thanks to tm3 and Tim Tait for all the support.
>
>I hate when the answer is this easy, but all I had to do was specify path =
>/home/%U   and all the users I enter (apache, bin, nobody etc.) now have the
>home directory of the current user.
>  
>

Thank you for pointing out this issue! And fixing it!

I suppose that does seem easy in retrospect... I always wonder about the 
magic of the [homes] mount! I think they should revise the example 
smb.conf to use that, as it seems the logical and correct behaviour to me.

Tim