[Samba] ADUC tool can­not creates users home di­rectory

[Nishant Sharma]

Well,

In that case you could choose to hide the homes share by naming it homes$
and assigning a network drive say H: to users as their home drive.

This is the way I have implemented it, may be there is some oversight from
my side, but it works for me. And directories are created automagically by
the windows tool.

Regards,
Nishant
On Mar 27, 2013 8:41 PM, "?icro MEGAS" <micromegas at mail333.com> wrote:

> Hello Nishant,
>
> thanks for your feedback. Well, of course your proposed configuration
> would work, but have a caveats in my eyes:
>
> - a user accessing the share \\s4srv\homes would see all other users home
> directories. Although he cannot enter/access them, I don't like this
> behavior.
> - you would have two shares shown, one is \\s4srv\homes and the other
> cloned one (because of the homes special share) \\s4srv\johndoe. That's
> annoying, too. If I would use "browseable = no" at the [homes] section,
> than only the share \\s4srv\johndoe would be visible and when you open this
> share, you see again all other users home directories (which is not wanted
> at all).
>
> I would really appreciate to use the special share [homes] as it is
> intended to be used (as described in the manual of smb.conf). But I cannot
> find another option to have ADUC tool use somehow this syntax form of this
> special share which will clone [homes]-->[username]. As I think exactly
> that is the problem, that's why ADUC cannot access this share to create a
> subdir there.
>
> Of course there would be an option to use logon scripts to create a
> non-existing home dir on-the-fly after the user logs in. I just wanted to
> ask here on the community, if I miss something and maybe there's a
> workaround to use [homes] as described initially on my post here *AND* to
> have ADUC tool creates a homedir for a user.
>
> However, thanks for your feedback.
>
> Cheers,
> Lucas.
>
> Срд 27 Мар 2013 18:50:02 +0400, Nishant Sharma <codemarauder at gmail.com>
> написал:
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2013 8:08 PM, "?icro MEGAS" <micromegas at mail333.com<http://compose/?adb_to=micromegas@mail333.com>>
> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > My smb.conf contains:
> >
> > [global]
> >    template homedir = /data1/homes/%ACCOUNTNAME
> >
> > [homes]
> >          browseable = no
> >    read onlyXSSCleaned= no
>
> Remove template homedir from global and add following to your homes
> section:
>
> path = /data1/homes
>
> And while defining home directory for users in dsa.msc give following path:
>
> \\SRV4\homes\%USERAME%
>
> And it should work fine.
>
> Regards,
> Nishant
>
>