[Samba] Making Home Directory available for Windows Users

[Robert Mortimer]

> 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.

You can Map a drive letter to the home share using

logon drive = q:
logon home = \\<servername>\%u

This will map the home as the p: drive so each user gets their home
drive as a p: drive. For older MS OS's you can achieve the same thing
with a logon script.


>
> 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!
> >
>
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