[Samba] Samba 4 Create User Home Dir??

[steve]

On 29/11/14 19:30, Greg Zartman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> This is one of the reasons that it is not recommended to use the DC for
>> anything other than authentication, see here:
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO
>>
>
> That is an unfortunate limitation of Samba 4 that will quite frankly limit
> its use by quite a few small to medium sized businesses.  Requiring two
> separate machines for authentication and file sharing isn't necessary from
> a resource standpoint. In many cases it would be a waste of hardware.   MS
> Server doesn't have this limitation.
>
> I haven't yet figured out why the homedir setting in the active directory
> is necessary for Samba itself.  This is especially true given it just
> ignores the setting.  Perhaps services like SSSD can pull this information
> from the Active Directory.
SSSD, yes. But not winbind. To do what you want to do on the DC, use 
SSSD and forget the template homedir.
J