[Samba] Auto directory creation not working

[Rok Kosir]

Hi,

thanks for the bump in right direction, don't know how i managed to miss this parameters in documentation.
I used just "preexec" so i create folder with current user and don't need to set permissions for it.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Rok

Marcis Lielturks wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I think that "root preexec" is the smb.conf parameter you might be 
> interested in.
> 
> MMM
> 
> On 07/15/10 10:44 AM, Rok Kosir wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am experiencing problems with auto directory creation for user shares.
>>
>> I have samba instance that is authenticated against samba PDC, on PDC 
>> i have 2 groups, group1 and group2.
>>
>> What i want to do now is to have separate folders for user shares for 
>> each group.
>> so /mnt/share/group1/user1 would be for user1 in group 1 and 
>> /mnt/share/group2/user2 would be folder for user2 in group 2
>>
>> root directories are crated (/mnt/share/group1 and /mnt/share/group2) 
>> with chmod 777  and owner is nobody:group1 and nobody:group2
>> If i do not create user folder manually, the user can not login with 
>> this error: "/mnt/share/group2/user2' does not exist or permission 
>> denied when connecting to [user2] Error was No such file or directory"
>>
>> Now, is there any way to convince samba to create user folders(i have 
>> too much users to create folders manually)
>>
>> The samba PDC is backended with LDAP(if this makes any difference).
>>
>> Samba version is: Samba 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 (latest from repo)
>> OS version: CentOs 5.3
>>
>> here is the smb.conf:
>>
>> [global]
>>  workgroup = WORKGROUP
>>  server string = Samba Server Version %v
>>  password server = 10.5.10.10
>>  encrypt passwords = yes
>>  add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u
>>  delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
>>  security = domain
>>  passdb backend = tdbsam
>>  template homedir = /mnt/share/%g/%u
>>  log level = 3
>> [homes]
>> comment = CSL backup server
>> path = /mnt/share/%g/%u
>> valid users = %S
>> write list = %S
>> read only = No
>> writable = yes
>> create mask = 0700
>> directory mask = 0700
>>
>>
>> any help and advice is very appreciated!
>> Cheers,
>> Rok
>>

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