[Samba] Samba 4 Create User Home Dir??

mourik jan heupink - merit heupink at merit.unu.edu
Sat Nov 29 02:12:02 MST 2014


Dear Greg,

I always make DC's (kvm) virtual machines on the same host. That way to 
could have one single machine, and yet seperate the fileserver from the DC.

MJ

On 11/29/2014 12:44 AM, Greg Zartman wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2014 2:10 AM, "Rowland Penny" <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> You can share it, you just cannot use individual paths to the users home
> directories, it has to be whatever the default is or what you set the
> template to. This is one of the reasons it is not recommended to use the AD
> DC as a fileserver.
>
> Wow that is a major shortcoming.  Many small businesses, home users, and
> nonprofits don't need multiple boxes for their server needs.  Seems aweful
> shortsighted to exclude this fairly large cross-section of users.
>
> So you are saying the AD DC needs to have all home dirs in
> /home/workgroup/username or it won't provide unique smb shares to them?
>
> Can you provide you wmb.conf fragment for the home share?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Greg
>


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