[Samba] map user homes to a windows share

[Neal A. Lucier]

Elvar wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> 
> I've been tasked with setting up several computer labs in a school with 
> Ubuntu workstations. I have successfully joined those workstations to 
> the windows domain and set it up so they authenticate to the windows 
> domain as well. My problem is that I need to figure out how to have each 
> user's home folder on the Ubuntu boxes map to the users home folder on 
> the windows 2003 server. The share location of their home folders on the 
> windows 2003 server is something like 
> \\servername\docs$\students\%username%. I'm not even sure if I can map 
> to a hidden share "$" in samba and also specify the %username% variable.
> 
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 

Pam_smbmount is most likely what you are looking for:

http://pam-smbmount.sourceforge.net/

Neal