[Samba] Setting home path to a dir within a users Linux home

[Dwight Tovey]

Michael Lueck said:
> Is there a trick to append an additional directory level onto the defauly
> behavior of a [homes] share looking in /etc/passwd to find the users Linux
> home dir? It would offer a bit of protection if
> Windows clients ended up in say the WinHome directory within their Linux
> home directory when logging in from Windows so they are not tempted to
> tamper with their desktop settings files for Linux from
> Windows.
>
> Maybe there is a bit of magic someone knows, a variable to include or
> something?
>

man smb.conf

Read the section on "The Homes Section"

Under '[homes]' in your smb.conf set
path = %H/WinHome


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