[Samba] Re: Trusting and Trusted Domain Samba LDAP (mapping Home Directories) Problem

[Igor Belyi]

Igor Belyi wrote:
> I can give a shoot at explaining the behavior and if I'm too off I hope 
> I'll be corrected.
> 
> When you select Domain into which you want to login you specify the 
> Domain where your credentials (username and password) should be verified 
> but shares specified without Domain will be retrieved from the Domain 
> your XP client belongs to.
> 
> I think what you want is to have 'logon home = \\%D\%U' instead of the 
> one you get by default: '\\%N\%U'
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Igor

I'm contradicting myself.. :( %D or %L won't make a difference for a 
client belonging to DomA. What you need is seting up NIS home directory 
server to return consistent information for users login into foreign Domain.

Igor

> 
> Adrian Chow wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is my scenario:-
>> 1.  I got 1 LDAP server with two domains (A & B) configured to it.
>> 2.  Both domain PDCs are fully trusted to one another.  I did the 
>> "trustdom establish" both ways.
>> 3.  I have 1 XP client that has joined Dom A.  The login bar can allow 
>> you to login to 2 domains.
>> 4.  I can managed to login to both domains.
>> 5.  I got all the sambaHomePath and home drive done properly on both 
>> servers in terms of LDAP portions.
>>
>>
>> Problem:-
>> When I login (from XP client) to Dom A, no problem.  The home drive 
>> gets mapped.
>> When I login to Dom B, the home drive never gets mapped.  The login 
>> scripts never run.  "net use x: /home" on the xp client says: "the 
>> user home directory cannot be determined."  But \\domB\homes on 
>> windows explorer worked!!
>>
>> I turn all syslog to debug and check everything on BOTH PDCs.  NO 
>> errors!  What is going wrong?
>>
>> Funny thing is that the Dom A PDC will query the Dom B for passwd auth 
>> check during the "net use x: /home".  Then it will query itself for 
>> the sambaHomeDrive details and such.... no errors at all... but 
>> logging in to Dom B cannot do it.
>>
>> I have also tried unjoining Dom A and rejoining Dom B.  The results is 
>> vice versa.  That means Logging in to Dom B got no problems in terms 
>> of mapping.  But Logging in to Dom A got problems.....
>>
>>
>> Can anyone shed a light for me in this?  I was about to do mass 
>> deployment.  My version of Samba is 3.07 for Dom B and 3.04 for Dom A. 
>> They are running on Debian.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> adrian
>>
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