[Samba] net drive mapping not working in login script

[EHines]

Not to put too fine a point on the matter (I'm out of ideas, now, 
anyway), but did you notice Ed's suggestion of the lower case u: %u?  
Samba distinguishes between %U and %u.  His solution also blows my 
thought about the "extra" .bat suffix out of the water.

Eric Hines

Chris Boyd wrote:
> I dont know it seems no matter where I put the script or path it doesn't seem to run. I'm wondering if it's something on the XP side? 
> Any ideas? 
>
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> 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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