[Samba] %U and %u different between XP and Win98

[George]

I want to use %U to map My Documents to each individual's directory on the
Samba server. This is working fine in Win98 but in XP %U maps to "guest"
when I log in as "george". In Win98 %U comes across as "george". 

 

I am running Samba V 3.0.20

Linux kernel 2.4.22

Slackware 9.1.0

 

All Win98 and XP machines are in a domain with the pdc on a different box
from the samba server (pdc is a windows 2000 box) I don't need the samba to
do any authentication, there is no smbpasswd file and no userids created in
/etc/passwd for the userids All the samba box needs to do is expand %U to
the login name used on the training PCs. BTW "isaskills" is the domain that
all the pcs (win98 and XP) are in, and authenticate to.  Each student needs
their own "My Documents" and it has to be on the samba server because they
sit at different PCs and move around etc. I can't put them on the win2000
pdc because of problems with backups and archives of student data on that
server. The userids are created on the win2000 pdc.  I can see that samba is
trying to use "guest" when I look in the log file, I see this:

 

[2005/10/24 12:55:06, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(633)

  '/var/shared/compro/guest' does not exist or is not a directory, when
connecting to [My Documents]

 

Here is my smb.conf file.

 

[global]

   workgroup = ISASKILLS

   server string = Training

   load printers = yes

   log file = /var/log/samba

   max log size = 50

   security = share

   ssl CA certDir = /etc/ssl/certs

   socket options = TCP_NODELAY

 

[printers]

   comment = Canon Bubble Jet 265sp

   path = /var/spool/samba

   browseable = yes

   public = yes

   printer = bjc265sp

   guest ok = yes

   writable = no

   printable = yes

 

[ComPro]

  comment = Community Promotions

  browseable = no

  public = yes

  path = /var/shared/compro

  writable = yes

  printable = no

 

[Admin]

  comment = CommPro Admin

  browseable = no

  path = /var/shared/admin

  writeable = yes

  printable = no

  public = yes

 

[CDRom]

  comment = Shared CDRom

  browseable = yes

  public = yes

  path = /cdrom

  writeable = no

  printable = no

 

[Resources]

  comment = Computer Resources

  browseable = yes

  public = yes

  path = /var/shared/resources

  writeable = yes

  printable = no

 

[My Documents]

  comment = My Documents

  browseable = yes

  public = yes

  path = /var/shared/compro/%U

  writeable = yes

  printable = no

 

 

 

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