[Samba] smb.conf for around 2500 users

[steve]

On 03/07/12 09:40, steve wrote:
> On 02/07/12 23:44, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
>> On 02/07/2012 21:20, steve wrote:
>>> On 02/07/12 18:50, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
>>>> 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:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>> Maybe I have misunderstood what you are trying to do but if you already
>> have automounter doing the right thing - maybe for the sake of argument
>> mapping
>> /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
>> /home2/students/year7/year7a/student2
>> ...
>> ...
>> /home2/students/year13/year13a/student2500
>> to
>> /homes/student1
>> /homes/student2
>> ...
>> ...
>> /homes/student250
>>
>> then you need only [homes] share in the smb.conf,
>> and then (similarly to Matthieu's suggestion) provide
>> \\servername\%username%
>> for homeDirectory attribute (and profilePath if you want roaming
>> profiles)?
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> L
> Hi Lukasz
> No, you have understood perfectly
>
> Is you [homes] a winbind [homes]?
>
> If so, we'd rather avoid having everyone in the same folder even if they
> are only links to the real data. We'd like to separate students from
> e.g. [staff] [admin] [webstuff] ... if only for readability purposes e.g.
>
> [students]
> path = /home/students/data
> read only = No
> browsable = No
>
> then
>
> ln -s /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1 /home/students/data/student1
>
> In AD that becomes:
>
> unixHomeDirectory: /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
> homeDirectory: \\server\students\student1
> homeDrive: Z:
>
> How does that look?
>
> Cheers and thanks for your time,
> Steve
>

Hi
OK I made the link in /home/students/data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul  3 09:54 joseph -> 
/home2/students/year7/7a/joseph

However, in xp browsing to Z: gives:
access is denied

Not even Administrator has access to it. If Administrator grants himself 
rights and gives full control to joseph, both he and joseph still get 
access denied.

However, joseph can access his home folder with the share like this 
(without the link):
[students]
 > path = /home/students
 > read only = No
 > browsable = No

Are we sure that the file server understands symlinks?
Cheers,
Steve