[Samba] Making Home Directory available for Windows Users

[Andreas Heinlein]

Hello,

I am pretty sure this is described somewhere in the official docs, but
anyway:
Your approach #1 should work well. The [homes] section is accessible by
clients using *either*
\\<servername>\<username> or
\\<servername>\homes

No modifications to your example necessary.

Bye,
Andreas

Alexander Schaber schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> Situation:
> We are in a school class every student logs on with the same account. Until 
> now we had Shares that were accessable for everybody and it was therefore 
> possible to look into and edit/delete other's files.
>
> Plan:
> Create a share that can be clicked on which then asks for User/Pass and 
> directly maps to the User's home Directory upon auth. User auth is done 
> through LDAP which works already.
>
> Example:
> Sharename: homedir
> User clicks on e.g. \\fileserver\homedir and is asked for User/Pass, after 
> entering 'examplestudent1'/hispassword he sees /home/examplestudent1 .
>
> Possible approach 1:
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         valid users = %S
>         browseable = No
>         read only = No
>         inherit acls = Yes
>
> The Problem with this one is, that the User would have to type 
> \\fileserver\examplestudent1 to get to his Homedir, which is _not_ wanted. Or 
> can this one be modified?
>
> Possible approach 2:
> [homedir]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         read only = No
>         browseable = Yes
>         path = /home/%u
>
> This seems to work, but is it secure enough? What about 'valid users'? The 
> computers are shut down after each lesson, so there won't be the case that a 
> old session is still alive.
>
> Requirements:
> A share that always has the same name (e.g. homedir) but behind that there is 
> the user's homedir or a share that lists /home and asks for a User/Pass for 
> each dir you click on. I know this is party done by setting appropriate 
> rights on the home dirs (700).
>
> I hope I made everything clear :) Thanks alot for your ideas!
>