[Samba] Your home directory is listed as :'home/xxxx' but it does not appear to exist

[Gaiseric Vandal]

What is your client machine?   This sounds like a Linux client 
error.     LDAP autofs tables point to a "home" directory that is not valid.


If your home dir is not mounted in linux of course you will get errors 
about files in home missing.

possible causes
      - typo in ldap autofs table
     -  home directory does not exist OR is not shared (nfs server issue)
     -   ldap/autofs configuration on linux client is in correct.


Log in to your linux workstation as root.  (maybe from a console rather 
than gui session.)  Type "su yourname" (not "su - yourname") then see if 
"cd /net/server//path_to_home_directories//yourname" is valid-  if it is 
then autofs is working.

Autofs on linux may require that an ldap proxy account account exists on 
the ldap server  (account info stored on client in /etc/ldap.conf and 
/etc/ldap.secret.)

On 12/16/2010 09:17 AM, Muqtadir Kamal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had been trying to log in from my client machine in to the ldap+samba3.3
> server machine, but i could not log on to the ldap+samba3.3 server machine
> successfully. Everytime i tried to log on, it popped-up with three dialog
> boxes one after another showing the messages as shown below inlcuded in
> double quotes:
>
> The first pop-up dialog box displayed the following messages in it:-
>
> "Your home directory is listed as :'home/xxxx' but it does not appear to
> exist. Do you  want to log in with the / (root) directory...... " with YES
> and NO buttons.
> After clicking on the YES button, the second pop-up window displayed  the
> following messages:-"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents
> the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by
> user and have 644 permissions...."
>
> After clicking on the OK button, the third box has shown the following lines
> :- \
>
> "Your session only lasted less than  10 seconds. If you have not logged  out
> yourself, this could mean some installtion problem or that you may be out of
> disk space. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you
> can fix this problem." It had also a check box associated with a combo box
> with a many messages as listed below:
> The chk box was ticked and had a label displaying "View Details
> (~/.session-errors file).
>
> Can any body let me know, how tom resolve these issues of permission denied
> ?
>
>
> Pleasss help me in this
> Regards........................................................
>
>
>
> [global]
>          workgroup = xxx
>          server string = Axxxx PDC (xxx.net) Samba %v
>          netbios name = xxxx
>          enable privileges = yes
>          interfaces = xxx.xxx.xxx
>          username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>          passdb backend = tdbsam:/etc/samba/passdb.tdb
>          passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1
>          printcap name = cups
> ;       printing = cups
>          security = user
>          log level = 3
>          admin users = administrator at smbadmins
>          time server = Yes
>          wins support = Yes
>          client lanman auth = yes
>          wins support = Yes
>          wins proxy = No
>          lanman auth = yes
>          ntlm auth = Yes
>
>          log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>          max log size = 100000
>          time server = Yes
>          ldap passwd sync = Yes
>          ldap ssl = off
>          ldap admin dn = cn=samba,ou=Users,dc=xxx,dc=net
>          ldap admin dn = cn=Manager,dc=xxx,dc=net
>          ldap suffix = dc=xxx,dc=net
>          ldap user suffix = ou=Users
>          ldap user suffix = uid=User
>          ldap user suffix = ou=People
>          ldap group suffix = ou=Groups
>          ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap
>          ldap machine suffix = ou=Hosts
>          ldap delete dn = Yes
>          add user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m "%u"
>          add machine script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w "%u"
>          add group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p "%g"
>          add user to group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -m "%u" "%g"
>          delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x "%u"
> "%g"
>          set primary group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-usermod -g "%g" "%u"
>          delete user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-userdel "%u"
>          delete group script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-groupdel "%g"
>
>
>
>   logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
>          #logon path = "
>          #logon drive = H:
>          logon drive =
>          logon home =
>          logon script = %U.bat
>          logon script = logon.bat
>          logon path =
>
>          #name resolve order = host
>          domain logons = Yes
>          os level = 35
>          preferred master = Yes
>          domain master = Yes
>          #local master = yes
>          load printers = yes
>          cups options = raw
>
>          idmap uid = 15000-20000
>          idmap gid = 15000-20000
>          passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd '%u'
>          unix password sync = no
>          passwd chat = "*New UNIX password*" %n\n "*Retype new UNIX
> password*" %n\n "*Changing password for*\nNew password*" %n\n "*Retype new
> password*" %n\n" "*updated successfully*"
>          pam password change = yes
> ;       encrypt passwords = yes
> ;       guest ok = no
> ;       guest account = nobody
>          enable privileges = yes
>          wins support = Yes
> [homes]
>          comment = Home Directories
>          valid users = %S
>          read only = No
>          browseable = No
>          valid users = %S
>          valid users = MYDOMAIN\%S
>
> [netlogon]
>          comment = Network Logon Service
>          path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>          admin users = root
>          guest ok = Yes
>
>
> [Profiles]
>          comment = Roaming Profile Share
>          path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
>          read only = No
>          profile acls = Yes
>          create mask = 0600
>          directory mask = 0700
> # --------- smb.conf end ---------
>
>
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