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

[Ole Traupe]

MJ, thanks a lot! Just to make sure I get you right:

This section is in the smb.conf.
a) on the DC acting as file sever as well, or
b) on a separate file server running Samba 4.1.17?

The user log-on happens on a third machine, that is neither DC nor that 
file server, right?

How and where is the home dir for each user specified? On the DC? In the 
smb.conf or via the ADUC console in the user properties under "Profile" 
and/or "Unix attributes"? Are you using rfc2307 in your smb.conf?

Does this work for log-ons on Windows as well as Linux machines?

Thank you for any more details!

Ole



Am 21.10.2015 um 13:41 schrieb mourik jan heupink:
> 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
>