[Samba] Avoiding user home directories

Madhusudan, R r.madhusudan at hp.com
Wed Oct 27 10:58:34 GMT 2004


Hello,

>>What do you want? no home-directory share?
Yup, that's precisely what I want :)

>>Simply remove the complete [homes] section
>>and these shares will disappear.
It worked, thanks!

-Madhu


-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:christoph.scheeder at scheeder.de]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:19 PM
To: Madhusudan, R
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Avoiding user home directories


Madhusudan, R schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>  When I connect to SAMBA using a particular username, apart from the shares I created,
> it appears that the home directory of the user logging in also shows up in the share list.
> I searched for a parameter using which I could control this, but was unsuccessful.
> 
> The [HOMES] section of my SMB.CONF looks like:
> 
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0750
>         browseable = No
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Madhu
Errm,
What do you want? no home-directory share?
Simply remove the complete [homes] section
and these shares will disappear.
Christoph



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