[Samba] direct descent into home directory

[Sean P. Elble]

I just want to make sure I understand you correctly before making any 
other recommendations. It sounds as though your users are able to login, 
and have a drive mapped to some directory on your server that CONTAINS all 
your users' home directories. Is that correct? If it is, how do you have 
your home directories setup compared to what is listed for each user in 
/etc/passwd (or corresponding LDAP entry)? Samba *SHOULD* be mapping each 
home directory accessed to each user's home directory as listed in 
/etc/passwd when a user maps the drive using net use h: /home (or any 
other drive letter, of course).

The other possible scenario I can see is that Windows Explorer isn't 
opening on startup to a user's home directory, but that sounds like the 
less-likely scenario.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jerry Mersel wrote:

> Thanks for answering.
>
> What I meant was , after a user logs in there is another folder
> to click to enter the users home directory. I want to go directly
> into the home directory.
>
>                             Regards,
>                               Jerry
>
>> Samba alone will not automatically map a user's home directory to any
>> specific drive. The best way (that I know of) to implement this is to
>> create a login script, where you run a command like this:
>>
>> net use h: /home
>>
>> That should map the H drive on the user's machine to their home directory
>> on the Samba server. I'm assuming this is what you mean when you say
>> Samba will go directly to the users' home directories. Hope it helps.
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jerry Mersel wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying, after login that samba will go directly
>>> to thei users home directory. But it doesn't happen. Please help.
>>>
>>> Here is my setup:
>>>
>>> logon home = \\%N\%U
>>>
>>> [homes]
>>>   comment = %U's Home Directory
>>>   valid users = %S
>>>   read only = Yes
>>>   browseable = no
>>>   ## path = %H
>>>   create mask = 0600
>>>   directory mask = 0700
>>>   guest ok = no
>>>   printable = no
>>>
>>>                          Regards,
>>>                            Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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|  Sean Elble                                     |
|  Virginia Tech                                  |
|  Computer Engineering, Class of 2008            |
|  Vice President, VTLUUG                         |
|  E-Mail:   elbles at sessys.com                    |
|  Cell:     860.946.9477                         |
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