[Samba] Home dirs problem

[Daniel Northam]

Path = /truepath/profile

You use the /path/%U when using a script to setup the user account in
ldap.

Then you need to look at the 

[Profile]

Area to have the client connect to the samba share.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+dnortham=ffpglobal.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-
> bounces+dnortham=ffpglobal.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Logan
Shaw
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:06 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Home dirs problem
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Marian Neagul wrote:
> >       I have a question about mapping users home directory's to
samba.
> >       The homedir layout is based on an old one used on NIS+ system.
The
> > structure is something like:
> >       /users
> >               /group1
> >                       /user1
> >                       /user2
> >                       ...
> >               /group2
> >                       /user3
> >                       ...
> >               /group3
> >                       /group3_1
> >                               /user4
> >                               ...
> >                       /group3_2
> >               ...
> >               /group4
> >                       /user5
> >
> >       How can I configure samba to use this home directory's? The
user
> > data is stored in LDAP (including the home directory and other
> > information not related to samba: qmail-ldap, courier, etc) ?
> >       The only option I've found is something similar to:
> >
> >       path = /home/%U
> >
> >       Can samba retrieve the home directory from LDAP?
> 
> Do you mean that if you do "finger user" or "getent passwd user"
> that the directory you want shows up in that output?  If so,
> just delete the "path" statement from the "[homes]" section.
> Samba will use the user's home directory by default.
> 
> Note, however, that you didn't really make a distinction between
> the Unix system using the data stored in LDAP as its password
> database (through some mechanism like nsswitch) and the home
> directory data just being in LDAP.  I believe that if the Unix
> system isn't using the LDAP data and passing it through to calls
> like getpwent(), then Samba won't use the LDAP data either.
> 
>    - Logan
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