[Samba] Can't get 'root preexec' to run

[Rowland Penny]

On 21/10/15 13:30, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 21/10/15 12:41, mourik jan heupink wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/21/2015 01:21 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> I am now beginning to think it doesn't work at all, if samba4 is
>>> involved in any way. I knew that it wouldn't work on a DC (probably
>>> because the user is DOMAIN\username and not just username), but from my
>>> experiment (see my earlier post) it doesn't seem to work at all, try
>>> your setup with '[home]' and a path line.
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>>
>> Probably I misunderstand the above, but I can only say: we're on 
>> samba4.1.17, and on our fileserver we use this:
>>
>>> [homes]
>>>     root preexec = /usr/local/sbin/mkhomedir.sh %U
>>>     comment=Home directory for %S
>>>     read only = No
>>>     browseable = No
>>>     create mask = 0770
>>>     directory mask = 0770
>>
>> And this works as expected: the preexec runs, and the homes share 
>> gives us per user home folders.
>>
>> MJ
>>
>
> OK, further tests, Mourik is correct, if you use '[homes]' and browse 
> direct to the users share it works, whats more, exactly the same setup 
> works on a DC!, so it would seem that you can use '[homes]' on a DC, 
> you just cannot browse to the 'homes' share (well, I cannot).
>
> I feel more tests coming on. :-)
>
> Rowland
>
>

Just had a further thought, has the OP made his script executable ? 
probably he has, but easy to forget.

Rowland