[Samba] Re: Logon scripts not working on all users

[Boaz]

Matt Anderson wrote:
> Boaz Bezborodko <boaz <at> mirrotek.com> writes:
> 
>> I have set up a logon script to run when users login.  It works for me
>> when I log in, but my user ID is mapped to a root group as well as
>> administrative privileges.  But it is not executing for regular users.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Boaz
>>
>>         logon script = stdlogon.bat
>>     logon home =
>>     logon path =
>>     security = user
>>     preferred master = yes
>>     domain logons = yes
>>         time server = yes
>>     guest ok = no
>>     domain master = yes
>>     writable = no
>>     path = /data/printspool
>>
>> [netlogon]
>>
>> ; comment = Network Logon Service
>>         path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>>
> 
> Hi Boaz,
> 
> A couple things to check:
> 1) Check out the file system permissions on the folder /var/lib/samba/netlogon
> on the server (cd to /var/lib/samba/ and do an ls -l).  Make sure that everyone
> has Read access... it should look something like drwxr-xr-x.  (It should look
> the same for stdlogon.bat inside that folder as well, or -rwxr--r-- instead)
> 2) If that's setup correctly, then, do you have any BDCs setup as well?  If so,
> then the login script needs to be in both in the netlogon share for both the PDC
> and BDC.
> 
> Hopefully that helps...
> 
> -Matt

stdlogon.bat was -rwxr-xr-x (755), but /var/lib/samba/netlogon was
drwxr-xr-- (754).  When I changed it to drwxr-xr-x (755) then it worked.
 It looks like the version of Samba I'm using (RHEL's 3.10.....)
requires the executable bit be set in order to run.

Thanks for the help.

Boaz