[Samba] Mounting home directories on NAS

Steve Kennedy steve at gbnet.org
Tue Sep 19 16:38:03 GMT 2006


Sorry replying to my own message

> I'm using Samba 2.2.12 (Sun Solaris 9 version) and it's all
> working fine as a PDC for a small domain.
> 
> I would like to use the /home construct so that the home
> directories are now mounted from a NAS rather than the local box.
> 
> In smb.conf I have
> 
> ; User Profiles
> logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
> 
> ; Where is a user's home directory and should it be mounted
> logon drive = Z:
> logon home = \\%N\%U
> 
> ; Generic logon script for a user
> logon script = "scripts\logon.bat %U"
> 
> Which all seems to work.
> 
> However if I try
> logon home = \\eddie\nashomes\%U
> 
> It doesn't seem to.
> Any ideas?

Would that be better with

logon home = \\eddie\\nashomes\\%U

Steve

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