[Samba] Macro expansion in LDAP entries like %L no longer works with 3.0.23d

[Oliver Burtchen]

Thanks for your reply. You're right, it's my fault. I overlooked this new 
option since 3.0.21 in "whatsnew.txt". Maybe it should also be mentioned in 
the explicite "Changes to passdb backend" section.  ;-)

Now I have one question: According to an old diskussion

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-January/078010.html

it sounds like macro-expansion for the ldap-backend is something like 
an "undocumented feature". Is this right and may it disappear in the future?

Best regards,
Oli



Am Montag 04 Dezember 2006 07:05 schrieb Volker Lendecke:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:26:41PM +0100, Oliver Burtchen wrote:
> > I just want to note this for other users having problems
> > with roaming profiles after upgrading their samba. As far
> > as I can see this change is not described somewhere else.
> >
> > I updated a samba PDC from 3.0.21b to 3.0.23d and had
> > problems logging in an Windows XP using roaming profiles
> > complaining just about not finding a network-path.
> > Profiles could not be loaded. It took me 1 day to figure
> > out that ldap entries like
> >
> > sambaProfilePath: \\%L\Profiles sambaHomePath: \\%L\home
> >
> > do not longer work like they did with samba 3.0.21b. Now
> > you have to hard-code the path like
> >
> > sambaProfilePath: \\Servername\Profiles sambaHomePath:
> > \\Servername\home
> >
> > for all users in ldap.
> >
> > Hope this helps someone having the same problem.
>
> Look at the changed defaults, now you have to set
>
> passdb expand explicit = yes
>
> Volker