[Samba] netlogon.bat issues

[David Christensen]

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Dale Schroeder wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
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> Dale Schroeder wrote:
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> David,
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> Your netlogon share is more complicated than most.
> Consider initially commenting out all the mask and mode parameters and the valid users parameter.
> If it then works, add them back one at a time until it breaks.
> 
> Depending on what the global preexec script does, you may want to initially disable that also.
> 
> Check that the execute bit is set on the .bat files.  I used 755 permissions with root:root ownership.
> Check the permissions throughout the entire netlogon path (/mnt/samba/netlogon).
> Were the files created in a DOS/Windows editor?
> 
> Dale
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> David Christensen wrote:
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> David Christensen wrote:
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> I have samba configured so that users have their own netlogon.bat file
> (e.g. %U.bat) and each user has a .bat with their username in the
> netlogon share.
> 
> So far I have been unable to get any of the shares that I have defined
> in the batch file to be mounted when a user logs in.  Here is a snapshot
> of both the netlogon section of my smb.conf file and the %U.bat file I
> am using:
> 
> smb.conf:
> 
> [global]
> .......
> preexec = /usr/local/bin/netlogon %U
> logon script = %U.bat
> logon home = \\%L\%U\.profiles
> logon path = \\%L\profiles$\%U
> logon drive = Z:
> 
> ........
> 
> [netlogon]
> path = /mnt/samba/netlogon
> admin users = root, Administrator, Admin
> valid users = %U
> read only = no
> browsable = no
> create mask = 0770
> force create mode = 0060
> create directory mask = 0770
> force directory mode = 0070
> security mask = 0777
> directory security mask = 0777
> 
> %U.bat:
> @echo off
> REM # In this example it is assumed the smb.conf handles home drive mapping
> REM # All users get access to Common drive
> net use Y: \\192.168.155.20\common
> 
> 
> REM # Lastly lets set the davidc's time to 192.168.155.20's time
> net time \\192.168.155.20 /set /yes
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> 
> Updated info
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> The user can run the batch file manually from the netlogon share, so the
> issue seems to be with it running automatically, is there any logs that
> would capture an attempt to execute this file?
> 
> 
> Determined by the "log file" and "log level" parameters, usually located in /var/log/samba.
> 
> 
> The preexec script actually creates a netlogon.bat file for each user
> when they log in and sets the file ownership to that of the user logging
> in.  So the batch file is being created by the Linux server.  Since I
> can execute the bat files manually via a command line on an XP host,
> wouldn't that mean that the file is ok?
> 
> 
> Everything I've read says the logon scripts have to be in DOS format.  Here's one example of that admonition:
> http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch06_06.html
> 
> To keep it automated, you could add a unix2dos command in the script.
> 
> 
> I commented everything you mentioned out and changed the file
> permissions, still not playing fair.
> 
> 
> The other parameters you provided look fairly standard.
> 
> Dale
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> David
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Dale,

The preexec script that creates the user batch file actually converts
the .bat file to DOS format using unix2dos so that is why running it
manually works and should work when a user logs in.

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