[Samba] Auto Create user home directory

[Dale Schroeder]

I see you have "template homedir = /home/%D/%U".  Did you create the 
directory /home/CAD?  It is not created automatically, and that is one 
thing that seems to be left out of the how-to's.  I set the directory 
permissions to 770, owned by root*:*"DOMAIN+Domain Users".  After doing 
this, all my user home directories were created on 1st login.

Good luck,
Dale

M Azer wrote:
> now that all permissions are right - if i create a new user on the win 
> 2003
> active directory and specify a home user under profile i will get " 
> the home
> folder could not be created because: the network name cannot be found" I
> know for sure I am getting that error because the user home folder 
> doesn't
> exist yet on the samba machine - is there any way to get the user home
> created automatically once a new user are added to active directory.
>
> Note: If the new user log in the linux terminal the home user will be
> created automatically because i am using session required
> /lib/security/$ISA/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077
> in my pam.d/system_auth. how do i get the same thing working when i 
> create a
> user with active directory.
>
> Thanks for you help
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
>
>
> I removed the "valid users = %S" and it worked -  Thanks for you help
>
>
> On 1/15/07, M Azer <azermina at gmail.com > wrote:Hello all,
>
> I am running samba-3.0.23c-2 on Redhat 3 enterprise as ADS. I am able 
> to see
> the windows users and groups with wbinfo.
>
> [root at itbox /]# getent passwd windowuser
> windowuser:*:10000:10002:windowuser:/home/CAD/windowuser:/bin/bash
>
> when i log to the network with one of the xp client machine i see home 
> share
> as well as a public share but i get access denied to both even after 
> giving
> the public share chmod 777 to everything on.
>
> from the linux terminal i tried to:
> [root at itbox /]# smbclient //itbox/windowuser -U windowuser
> Password:
> session setup failed: NT_STATUS_UNEXPECTED_NETWORK_ERROR
>
> the second time I ran the same command i got:
>
> [root at itbox /]# smbclient //itbox/windowuser -U windowuser
> Password:
> Domain=[CAD] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c-2]
> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>
>
> all of my windows users are able to logon the linux termainl with their
> windows username and password
>
> [global]
> #ADS
>        security = ADS
>        workgroup = CAD
>        realm = CAD.TESTDOMAIN
>        netbios name = itbox
>        preferred master = no
>        password server = 192.168.1.6
>        client use spnego = yes
>        server signing = auto
>        encrypt passwords = yes
> #winbind
>        winbind separator = +
>        idmap uid = 1000-20000
>        idmap gid = 1000-20000
>        winbind enum users = yes
>        winbind enum groups = yes
>        winbind use default domain = yes
>        winbind cache time = 0
>        winbind nested groups = yes
>        template homedir = /home/%D/%U
>        template shell = /bin/bash
> #logs
>        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>        log level = 3
>        max log size= 50
> #extras
>        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>        hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.0. 127.
> [homes]
>        comment = Home Directories
>        valid users = %S
>        read only = No
>        browseable = No
> [data]
>        path = /data
>        public = yes
>        writable = yes
>        browseable = yes