[Samba] User Manager Tools and Automatic Profile creation

Gary Dale garydale at torfree.net
Tue Nov 8 18:23:05 GMT 2005


Timothy Dutton wrote:

>Hi all
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>I have a problem when creating new users.
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>If I create the users directly on my linux box i.e useradd <name> and
>smbpasswd -a <name> the profiles directories are set up automatically for
>me.
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>However if I try to use the NT4 user manager to create the new users, I have
>to manually set the up the profiles and user home directories.
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>Am I missing something here?
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>Tim
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I believe the profiles will be set up when the user logs on. Home 
directories would only be set up if the users were to be allowed to log 
on as a Linux user, which is usually not the case.



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