Am 24.11.2014 um 16:11 schrieb Rowland Penny: > Enclose the path in double quotes i.e. > <--home-directory="\\\\elektra\\home\\$i"> With double quotes, you have to escape the backslashes (Rowland said this correct). With single quotes not: # samba-tool user add ... --home-directory='\\dc1\home\demo6' Regards, Marc