[Samba] Breaking up user homes by letter
Ali Bendriss
ali.bendriss at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 06:22:17 MDT 2013
On Monday, April 22, 2013 04:45:15 PM Christopher Horsager wrote:
> Hi,
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hello,
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> I've been digging all over and I can't seem to find an answer to this.
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> Is there a way to have Samba assign home directory paths by the first
> letter of a username and then the actual username underneath? Like this:
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I use bind mount and symlink for that.
but I've done the split to ease the backup not for performance reason.
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> /Users/j/Johnson
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> If I can, is there a way for Samba to also still direct the user right into
> that folder if in Windows they were to enter \\sbmserver\username
> <file:///\\sbmserver\username> ?
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> I'm just trying to separate out the home directories as this may possibly be
> used by 1000+ at once and I'm worried about performance having all the
> homes in one directory.
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Listing 1000+ directories may be slow but (on my system a least) chdir in one
of them is fast wathever the number is.
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> Chris
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