[Samba] net drive mapping not working in login script

[Chris Boyd]

Success!!!!!
That did it. I put just the file name in pdbedit and they are working now. 

Thanks a million 


>Also as a note, I don't reference the path for a login script, but
>rather the login script name itself as it is assumed to be in the
>'netlogon' share of the server providing logon services.

>i.e. 'logon.bat' and not '\\server\netlogon\logon.bat'

>I am not stating these things to be empiricallly correct, but rather >as
>this works for me.

Chris Boyd
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>>> Ed Kasky <ed at esson.net> 04/07/06 2:56 PM >>>
I have the following config that works well for me:

logon script = %u.bat

and under /shared/netlogon I have [user].bat for each user as we are 
a small operation...

HTH

Ed

At 06:24 AM Friday, 4/7/2006, EHines wrote -=>
>I'm shotgunning here, since I'm not much more experienced than you, 
>but I think setting login script to netlogon/%U.bat makes Geraldine, 
>for instance, run the script geraldine.bat.bat.  Try using 
>netlogon/%U (although I'm not sure this construction works).
>
>Eric Hines
>
>Chris Boyd wrote:
>>No they are in the /var/lib/samba/netlogon/ directory...see
>>ls -la /var/lib/samba/netlogon/
>>total 21
>>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 200 Apr  7 14:20 .
>>drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 680 Apr  7 14:15 ..
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 aillin.bat
>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 geraldine.bat
>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 kay.bat
>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 reception.bat
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 181 Apr  7 12:09 robin.bat
>>
>>I've tried chmod 755, changing the {netlogon} in smb.conf:
>>
>>[netlogon]
>>         comment = Network Logon Service
>>         path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>>         login scipt = netlogon/%U.bat
>>         write list = root
>>         admin users = root
>>         guest ok = Yes
>>         browseable = No
>>
>>doesn't work for some reason.
>>
>>
>>
>>Chris Boyd
>>Systems Engineer
>>USIT 19-21 Aston Quay
>>Dublin 2
>>Ireland
>>
>>Tel: +353 1 6021670
>>Fax: +353 1 6771602
>>www.usit.ie
>>
>>>>>E <eehines at comcast.net> 04/07/06 2:00 PM >>>
>>>>>
>>You haven't placed your scripts in the .../netlogon directory; 
>>you've placed them, it seems from your ls listing, in your 
>>.../netlogon/scripts directory.  You need to correct your [netlogon] path.
>>
>>Eric Hines
>>
>>Chris Boyd wrote:
>>
>>>To answer craig. I've corrected the dos syntax in the login 
>>>scripts but they don't seem to be running.
>>>Here's the whole smb.conf
>>>
>><snip>
>>
>>
>>>[netlogon]
>>>         comment = Network Logon Service
>>>         path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>>>         write list = root
>>>         admin users = root
>>>         guest ok = Yes
>>>         browseable = No
>>>
>>>
>>>ls -la /var/lib/samba/netlogon/
>>>total 21
>>>drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 224 Apr  7 12:13 .
>>>drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 680 Apr  7 12:16 ..
>>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 aillin.bat
>>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 geraldine.bat
>>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 kay.bat
>>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 179 Apr  7 12:10 reception.bat
>>>-rwxr--r--  1 root root 181 Apr  7 12:09 robin.bat
>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  80 Apr  6 12:05 scripts
>>>
>>>
>>>Chris Boyd
>>>Systems Engineer
>>>USIT 19-21 Aston Quay
>>>Dublin 2
>>>Ireland
>>>
>>>Tel: +353 1 6021670
>>>Fax: +353 1 6771602
>>>www.usit.ie
>>>
>>>
>><snip>
>>
>>
>
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