[Samba] smb.conf for around 2500 users

[Lukasz Zalewski]

On 02/07/12 17:20, steve wrote:
> On 02/07/12 17:49, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 17:39 +0200, steve wrote:
>>> Samba4 with Linux and Windows clients wanting to get the same home
>>> folder data.
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> A college has students arranged with Linux home directories according to
>>> which year they belong to and which class within that year, a or b or
>>> whatever, they belong to e.g.:
>>> /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
>>> /home2/students/year7/year7a/student2
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> /home2/students/year13/year13a/student2500
>>>
>>> To get at the same data on windows, I was thinking of a share for each
>>> of the classes e.g.
>>> [year7a]
>>> path = /home2/students/year7/year7a
>>> read only = No
>>> browsable = No
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> [year13a]
>>> path = /home2/students/year13/year13a
>>> read only = No
>>> browsable = No
>>>
>>> and mapping a drive letter to the share e.g.
>>> map Z: to \\server\year7a\%USERNAME%
>>>
>>
>> Deal with it through your NSS mechanism so that the file server knows
>> for \\server\%USERNAME% where the users home directory is actually
>> located and then you can just use the special [homes] share.
>>
>> I do this with winbind and the unixHomeDirectory attribute in AD.
>>
>> JAB.
>>
> Hi Jonathan
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> I think I must be missing something here because as far as I can see,
> winbindd puts all users into the directory specified in template
> homedir. [homes] then picks out the user from there.
>
> At the moment we are using nss-pam-ldapd to grab the unixHomeDirectory
> from AD. How do I get winbindd or nss to map unixHomeDirectory to
> something I can then map to a windows drive letter?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve

Hi Steve,
Have you considered using autofs to do all of the mapping work for you, 
so that you have only one /homes/ (or whatever else you want to call it) 
to worry about?

L